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FILE - Curtis Flowers speaks with reporters as he exits the Winston-Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Miss., Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi

By Corey Williams - Associated Press

Man freed after wrongful imprisonment marries in Mississippi

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How an investigative podcast helped free Curtis Flowers

By ALISSA ZHU and The Clarion Ledger - Associated Press

Defendant Curtis Flowers, center, stands at his bail hearing in Winona, Miss., Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Flowers has been tried six times for murder in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store. Although sentenced to death during the sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that conviction in June, finding that prosecutors had shown a pattern of improperly excluding African American jurors in the trials. Flowers was granted bail. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi DA leaves murder case after multiple trials

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2017, file photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers. A judge has set a new site for next week's bail hearing for Flowers, who has been tried six times for murder in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store. The Administrative Office of Courts said Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, that Flowers' hearing will take place Dec. 16 at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Winona. (Mississippi Department of Corrections File via AP, File)

Judge holding bond hearing for man tried 6 times in killings

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2017, file photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers. A judge has set a new site for next week's bail hearing for Flowers, who has been tried six times for murder in the 1996 shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store. The Administrative Office of Courts said Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, that Flowers' hearing will take place Dec. 16 at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Winona. (Mississippi Department of Corrections File via AP, File)

New site for bail hearing of Mississippi man tried 6 times

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

In this March 20, 2019 file photo, Attorney Sheri Johnson leaves the Supreme Court after challenging a Mississippi prosecutor's decision to keep African-Americans off the jury in the trial of Curtis Flowers, in Washington. The Supreme Court is throwing out the murder conviction and death sentence for Flowers because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial. The court's 7-2 decision Friday says the removal of black prospective jurors violated the rights of inmate Curtis Flowers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Curtis Flowers, man tried 6 times for murder, seeks bail, end to charges

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

State court sends black man’s disputed murder case back

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FILE - In this June 14, 2010 file photograph, Clemmie Flemming points out to prosecutor Doug Evans, center, where she spotted Curtis Giovanni Flowers on the morning of four slayings at Tardy Furniture in Greenwood, Miss. Evans, a Mississippi prosecutor who has tried the same man six times in a death penalty case now will decide whether to seek a seventh trial after the U.S. Supreme Court found racial bias in jury selection. (Taylor Kuykendall/The Commonwealth via AP, File)

Prosecutor could decide on seventh trial in Mississippi case

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

The Supreme Court has a shot at expanding gun rights with a case by gun rights activists against New York City. (Associated Press/File)

Supreme Court overturns conviction for black man over race discrimination

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen under stormy skies in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Court tosses black man’s murder conviction over racial bias

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers, whose murder case has gone to trial six times. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

Supreme Court troubled by jury selection bias in Mississippi

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Curtis Flowers, whose murder case has gone to trial six times. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

Supreme Court set for case on racial bias in jury selection

By Jeff Amy and Mark Sherman - Associated Press

Lawyers seek to question prosecutor in disputed murder case

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press