Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56

Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years on death row in Mississippi, died at his home on Wednesday. Flowers had been convicted of four murders in 1996 after six trials, but the U. S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence. His family confirmed his death at age 56.

Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. Flowers’ family confirmed that he died on Wednesday at his home in Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told the Associated Press on Thursday.

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