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Today, Explained

Tried six times for the same crime

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for the same crime: a quadruple homicide at a furniture store in Mississippi. Madeleine Baran, host of the “In the Dark” podcast, explains how this case represents a fundamental problem with jury selection in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right.

0:21.1

It's Wednesday morning, March 20th.

0:28.7

I'm going to bring it here, but it's about 40 degrees outside the United States Supreme

0:31.8

Court.

0:32.8

There's a massive line of people bigger than usual.

0:37.6

I thought I'd ask them what they're standing in line for.

0:39.9

Do you have any idea what case you're hearing today?

0:42.6

Yeah, it's Flowers versus Mississippi.

0:44.4

I'm actually in a, my senior seminar is about the death penalty, so we studied the case

0:48.8

in class.

0:49.8

When you listen to the flowers, what we know about the flowers case, it's like, if that's

0:55.1

an erstructural racism, I don't know what is.

0:57.8

I read like, but it's been overturned.

1:00.9

He killed four people.

1:01.9

Unfortunately, he's killed four people, been overturned six times or something like that.

1:06.9

So I guess they're trying to decide.

1:08.6

Yeah.

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