The court will hear the case of a black man on death row in Mississippi, who’s been tried six times for the same crime. David Greene talks to Madeleine Baran, host of the podcast: In the Dark.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
We’re going to hear now about the extraordinary case of Curtis Flowers. He’s a black man on death row in Mississippi. Over the past two decades, he has been tried six times for the same crime – the 1996 murder of four employees in a Mississippi furniture store. After seeing three prior convictions overturned and two other trials end in mistrial, in 2010, Flowers was convicted again and sentenced to death.
Now his fate lies with the U.S. Supreme Court, which is taking up the case tomorrow. And the outcome rests on one question, whether potential jurors were excluded on the basis of race. American Public Media’s investigative podcast “In The Dark” has been looking into that question. And in the latest episode, here is host Madeleine…
