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Curtis Flowers, wrongly imprisoned, enduring six trials, dead at 56

By Taylor Vance and Mississippi Today Oct 7, 2026 | 4:41 PM

Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials for murder in Mississippi became a landmark case for racial bias in jury selection, has died, according to the Montgomery County coroner. Flowers was 56. His cause of death was not immediately released. Montgomery County Coroner Allan Pratt told Mississippi Today in a statement that Flowers’ body was […]