A petrecut peste 20 de ani în închisoare, iar cazul său a devenit simbolul discriminării rasiale. Bărbatul care a înfruntat justiția americană a murit

Curtis Flowers, an African American man who spent over 20 years in prison and was tried six times for the same four murders, has died at 56. His case highlighted racial discrimination in the American judicial system. Flowers was convicted in 1996 for the shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store in Mississippi. After multiple trials ending in mistrials or overturned convictions, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 2019, citing racial bias in jury selection. He was released on bail later that year, and charges were eventually dropped in 2020. Flowers was awarded $500,000 for wrongful imprisonment. His legal team remembered him as a gentle man who faced extraordinary challenges without bitterness.