[dropcap]The[/dropcap] second season of “In the Dark,” a Peabody Award -winning podcast from American Public Media Reports, visits the deep South to examine the case of Curtis Flowers, a Black man tried six times for capital murder. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
According to the season trailer and first two episodes, which premiered today (May 1), Flowers was charged with the 1996 shooting murders of four employees at the Winona, Mississippi, furniture store where he used to work. Rolling Stone reported in 2013 that Doug Evans, the local district attorney, characterized Flowers as a disgruntled employee and pursued capital murder charges despite Flowers’ pleas of innocence. The Clarion-Ledger/The Associated Press noted that Flowers was tried for the same alleged crime six times over nearly two decades, making him the only known person in the United States to endure that many trials for one set of charges.
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