(CNN) — Prosecutors in Mississippi are dismissing the case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times in a murder case by a White prosecutor and spent 23 years in prison, a ...

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Attorney General's Office is dropping its case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times for the same crime by a white prosecutor. The case drew ...

Curtis Flowers, a 50 year old Black man in Mississippi, is finally free of the murder charges he was tried for six times over the past 24 years—and in front of mostly-white juries. Suggested Reading ...

Curtis Flowers has been awarded $500,000 from the state of Mississippi after being wrongfully imprisoned for more than 20 years. “Today, I am finally free from the injustice that left me locked in a ...

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The Mississippi district attorney who prosecuted Curtis Flowers for capital murder six times, only to see his efforts end in mistrials or overturned convictions, is stepping down from the case, ...

On July 30th, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) held hearings on Capitol Hill entitled “A Conversation on Race and Justice in America” in response to the intense national debate that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a black Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times in the 1996 killings of four people at a Mississippi furniture store. Lawyers ...

DECLARING THAT Mississippi prosecutors engaged in a “relentless, determined effort” to exclude African Americans from a jury considering the case of accused murderer Curtis Flowers, the Supreme Court ...

Four months after Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced the state would not prosecute Curtis Flowers for capital murder for a seventh time, the Legislature is considering an apology to the man who ...

Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the murder conviction of an African American man from Mississippi who had been tried six times by nearly all-white juries. The ...

A Mississippi man who has been tried six times for the same murders is enjoying his first night of freedom in more than two decades. Curtis Flowers on Monday was released from prison following a ...