Curtis Flowers is taking action against the man who tried him six times for the same 1996 quadruple murder, ... The state of Mississippi was ordered to pay Flowers $500,000 for wrongful imprisonment.

Curtis Flowers flanked by sister Priscilla Ward, right, exits the Winston Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Mississippi, Monday, December 16, 2019. Rogelio V. Solis / AP ...

A 1979 graduate of Mississippi State University with a degree in horticulture, she owned the Flower Market on Old Canton Road in Jackson for 15 years. “I recognized then that we could grow the ...

Flowers, 48, is held at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman prison. Flowers worked at Tardy Furniture for a short time before being fired, and Evans portrayed him as a ...

Flowers was first found guilty in 1997 and sentenced to die. Three years later, the Mississippi Supreme Court threw out the conviction, leading to the decades-long legal saga.

Flowers’ ordeal began in July 1996 on the morning Bertha Tardy and three of her employees were killed execution-style in her furniture store in Winona, Mississippi.

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 ...

Flowers was accused of capital murder in the killing of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. Prosecutors alleged Flowers stole a .380-caliber pistol and shot the store’s ...

As the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida continues to grab national headlines, a case, now playing out in Mississippi, also raises questions about race and justice in America. To be sure, in this ...

In Flowers’s case, the Supreme Court’s order instructed the Mississippi Supreme Court to reconsider its opinion in light of Foster v. Chatman. But those judges, 5–4, reaffirmed their earlier ...

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 spokeswoman ...