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Curtis Flowers dies in Mississippi after death sentence was overturned
Original: Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
Curtis Flowers, a Black Mississippi man whose death sentence was thrown out by the US Supreme Court in 2019, has died in Mississippi. His case became a landmark after the Court found prosecutors had improperly excluded Black jurors during his multiple trials. News of his death is being carried widely across American outlets, prompting renewed attention to a case long cited in debates over racial bias and prosecutorial misconduct in capital punishment.
Why now: The death of a man at the center of a landmark Supreme Court ruling on racial discrimination in jury selection is major news.
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- Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi · The Philadelphia Sunday Sun
- Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi · ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi · Boston Herald
- Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi · News4JAX
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