Conviction review
Convictions that were overturned, and innocence claims courts are ruling on this week. Read what the evidence was and where it broke.
Sabrina Butler
Sabrina Butler (born 1971) is a Mississippi woman and former death row inmate who was acquitted at a retrial after being convicted as a teenager for the alleged murder and child abuse of her nine-month-old son, Walter Dean Butler.
2015 · MississippiOverturnedWillie Jerome Manning
Willie Jerome "Fly" Manning (born June 12, 1968) is on death row at Mississippi State Penitentiary, USA, with two death sentences for a conviction of double murder (Steckler-Miller murders). He was previously also convicted and sentenced to death for an unrelated double murder (Jimmerson-Jordan murders), but the State Supreme Court overturned this verdict and ordered a new trial. The charges against him for the…
1996 · MississippiOverturned
Curtis Flowers
Curtis Giovanni Flowers (May 29, 1970 – October 7, 2026) was an American man who was wrongly imprisoned and on death row for more than twenty-two years, during which he was tried for the same murders six separate times by the same prosecutor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of these trials had resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal for repeated prosecutorial misconduct. Flowers was…
2021 · MississippiExonerated 2021Eddie Lee Howard
In 2021, Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated in Mississippi for a 1992 murder he did not commit. He had spent 26 years in prison.
2008 · MississippiExonerated 2008Levon Brooks
Levon Brooks served 16 years in Mississippi prisons for a 1990 rape and murder of a three-year-old girl he didn't commit.
2008 · MississippiExonerated 2008Kennedy Brewer
In 1995, Kennedy Brewer was wrongly convicted of the murder of his girlfriend's three-year-old daughter in Mississippi.