Mississippi to pay Curtis Flowers $500K for 20-year wrongful imprisonment I believe it should have been more, but I feel good, Flowers remarked
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Curtis Flowers has been awarded $500,000 from the state of Mississippi after being wrongfully imprisoned for more than 20 years.
theGrio reported charges against Flowers were dropped in September 2020 after he had already spent 23 years in federal prison. Flowers was initially released from custody in December 2019. He was accused of being responsible for the 1996 shooting deaths of
Bertha Tardy,
Bobo Stewart at the Tardy Furniture store in Winona, Miss.
“Today, I am finally free from the injustice that left me locked in a box for nearly 23 years,” Flowers said in a statement. “I’ve been asked if I ever thought this day would come… With a family that never gave up on me and with them by my side, I knew it would.”
Mississippi will pay wrongfully imprisoned death row inmate Curtis Flowers just $500,000 after he was jailed for more than 20 years and white prosecutor rebuked by Supreme Court for racial bias tried him SIX times for the same crime
Mississippi Circuit Judge George Mitchell ordered Curtis Flowers, 50, be compensated $50,000 for each year he was in jail, under state law
But since the 2009 law is not retroactive, Flowers will only be compensated for the 10 years he was imprisoned since its passage
Flowers was sentenced to death in 2010 for a quadruple shooting inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, in 1996
The victims were store owner Bertha Tardy, 59, and three employees, Carmen Rigby, 45, Robert Golden, 42, and Derrick Stewart, 16
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