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

Curtis Flowers died Wednesday at his home in Mississippi at age 56

He spent more than 22 years in prison, including time on death row, before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence

Flowers was tried six times for the July 1996 shooting deaths of four people inside a Winona, Mississippi furniture store

In 2019 the Supreme Court ruled 7-2, with Justice Kavanaugh writing that removal of Black prospective jurors deprived Flowers of a fair trial

July 1996: Four people are shot and killed inside a Winona, Mississippi furniture store · months later: Curtis Flowers, then 26, is arrested in connection with the killings · 2010: During his sixth trial, Flowers is sentenced to death by a jury of 11 white jurors and one Black juror · 2019: The U.S. Supreme Court rules 7-2 to throw out Flowers' conviction and death sentence · December 2019: Flowers is released after a judge sets bond · September 2020: Mississippi drops all charges against Flowers

56 age at death · 22+ years in prison · 6 trials · 7-2 Supreme Court decision vote · $500,000 wrongful imprisonment payment

No cause of death was given for Flowers' death