Curtis Flowers
American death row inmate · United States · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1970 to 2026 · aged 56
Curtis Giovanni Flowers was an American man who was wrongly imprisoned for over 22 years while he was tried for the same murders six times by the same prosecutor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal for repeated prosecutorial misconduct.
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In memoriam Died on 7 October 2026. Mississippi Today, The New York Times, WJTV
A life in dates
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About this person
Flowers was alleged to have committed the July 16, 1996, shootings of four people inside Tardy Furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, United States. Flowers was first convicted in 1997; in five of the six trials, the prosecutor, Montgomery County District Attorney Doug Evans, sought the death penalty against Flowers. As a result, Flowers was held on death row at the Parchman division of Mississippi State Penitentiary for over 20 years.
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