Curtis Flowers, who was wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years, has died at the age of 56. Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor before ultimately being wrongfully convicted. As 60 Minutes reported in 2021, when Flowers was charged with killing four people in 1996, he had no criminal record, there was no murder weapon and no DNA or fingerprints linking him to the crime.
One of Curtis Flowers' attorneys called his case "unprecedented in the history of the American legal system."
Flowers was 26 when he was arrested several months after the July 1996 shooting deaths of four people inside a Winona, Mississippi, furniture store.
The Battle of Flowers Association is set to announce the theme for the 136th Battle of Flowers Parade and introduce next year’s grand marshal Thursday morning.
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