This is In the Dark. I'm Madeline Barron.

I'm coming to you today with some big news.

The Mississippi Attorney General has just announced that she is dropping the case against

Curtis Flowers. After 24 years and six trials, the case is over and Curtis is finally truly

free.

Curtis Flowers was just 26 when he was arrested for the murders of four people at Tardy Furniture

in Winona, Mississippi. He was tried before an all-white jury and found guilty and sentenced

to death. He appealed and he won, but he was tried again and again, on and on, six trials

total, years awaiting execution in a solitary cell on death row in parchment prison.

We started reporting on Curtis' case about three years ago. We moved to Mississippi.

Talked to hundreds of people.

Hello, nice to meet you Madeline. Nice to meet you. I'm happy.

They ain't too bad a day when my mind is off of here and I think about them all.

Witnesses for the state told us they'd lied under oath.

For years, you're telling me he killed some people here now. We need to be told.

We found that the science that was used to convict Curtis really wasn't science at all.

That is absolute nonsense. We identified an alternate suspect in the case.

You commit the murders at Tardy Furniture? Did you?

Doug threw more than 100,000 documents. We have now scanned all trial files at all eight

quarters and we discovered a decades-long pattern of racial discrimination in jury selection

by the office of the White District Attorney, Doug Evans, who prosecuted Curtis Flowers

at all six of his trials.

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