发布于2026年10月8日 / 美国东部时间下午3:16 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
密西西比州黑人男子柯蒂斯·弗劳尔斯去世，享年56岁。他曾因同一桩谋杀案被同一检察官先后起诉6次，最终遭误判后沉冤得雪。
弗劳尔斯的律师罗布·麦克达夫周四向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实，弗劳尔斯于周三在密西西比州怀诺纳的家中去世。弗劳尔斯的家属已经确认了这一消息。
麦克达夫是弗劳尔斯法律团队的成员之一，他表示目前尚未公布弗劳尔斯的死因。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系验尸官了解详情。
弗劳尔斯与司法系统的抗争始于1996年7月的一个清晨，地点在密西西比州怀诺纳。当时，塔迪家具店的店主、一名簿记员、一名送货员和一名16岁少年遭人以处决式手法近距离枪击头部身亡。
弗劳尔斯当年夏天曾在这家家具店短暂工作，但仅出勤三天后就没来上班，随后被解雇。案发后警方对他进行了询问，但当时并未将其逮捕。之后弗劳尔斯搬去德克萨斯州与姐姐同住，并于1997年1月在当地被捕。他此前并无犯罪前科。
麦克达夫此前曾将弗劳尔斯的案件称为“美国司法史上前所未有的案例”。
他在2021年接受《60分钟》采访时表示，前三次对弗劳尔斯的定罪均被推翻，“原因是检察官向陪审团虚假陈述证据，以及他在遴选陪审团时存在歧视行为”。
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作案凶器始终未被找到，也没有DNA或指纹证据能将弗劳尔斯与这起凶案联系起来。
在首次审判中，全白人陪审团仅经过一小时评议就裁定弗劳尔斯有罪。当时27岁的弗劳尔斯被判处死刑。
他的定罪被上诉并推翻，但同一检察官又对他就同一罪行发起了五次额外审判。除两次审判陷入僵局外，他又三次被定罪，随后均在上诉中被推翻。
该案的检察官是地区检察官道格·埃文斯，他在2010年终于在第六次审判中获得了生效定罪，弗劳尔斯再次被送入死囚牢房。
随后，美国公共媒体播客《深入暗处》的记者对这起案件展开调查。他们的调查促使包括一名曾指证弗劳尔斯认罪的证人在内的多名证人翻供。
《深入暗处》的记者和制作人员还分析了数十年的法庭数据，结果显示埃文斯长期存在不成比例地排除黑人陪审员的历史。在弗劳尔斯所有的审判中，72名陪审员中有61名是白人，且全部投下了定罪票。
2019年，美国最高法院裁定埃文斯和密西西比州政府侵犯了弗劳尔斯的宪法权利，再次推翻了他的定罪。布雷特·卡瓦诺大法官写道，检方存在“持续、坚定地将黑人个体排除出陪审团的行为”。六个月后，弗劳尔斯获得保释出狱，这是他23年来首次离开监狱。
“我跟你说，当时我感觉自己像飘在空中一样，就等着出去了，”弗劳尔斯在2021年接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道。
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Curtis Flowers, Mississippi man wrongfully convicted after being tried for the same killings 6 times, dies at 56
Updated on October 8, 2026 / 3:16 PM EDT / CBS News
Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who was wrongfully convicted multiple times when he was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor, has died. He was 56.
Flowers’ family confirmed that he died Wednesday at his home in Winona, Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told CBS News on Thursday.
No cause of death was given, said McDuff, who was part of Flowers’ legal team. CBS News has reached out to the coroner.
Flowers’ struggle with the justice system began in Winona, Mississippi, on a July morning in 1996, when the owner of Tardy Furniture, a bookkeeper, a delivery man and a 16-year-old were shot in the head execution-style.
Flowers briefly worked at the furniture store that summer, but he was let go after he stopped showing up after only three days. Police questioned him after the murders, but didn’t arrest him at the time. Flowers later moved to Texas to live with his sister, and he was arrested there in January 1997. He had no prior criminal history.
McDuff previously called Flowers’ case “unprecedented in the history of the American legal system.”
He told “60 Minutes” in 2021 that the first three convictions against Flowers were overturned “because of the prosecutor’s misrepresentation of the evidence to the jury and because of his discrimination in the selection of the jury.”
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The murder weapon was never found, and there was no DNA or fingerprints linking Flowers to the crime.
In the first trial, an all-White jury convicted him after just an hour of deliberation. Flowers, then 27, was sentenced to death.
His conviction was appealed and overturned. But he was tried five more times for the same crime by the same prosecutor. He had three more convictions overturned on appeal, in addition to two mistrials.
The prosecutor was District Attorney Doug Evans, who in 2010 finally got a conviction to stick in trial six, and Flowers returned to death row.
Then reporters at American Public Media’s podcast “In the Dark” looked into the case. Their investigation led witnesses, including one who said Flowers had confessed, to recant their stories.
“In the Dark” reporters and producers also analyzed decades of court data that revealed Evans had a history of excluding Black people from juries at a disproportionate rate. Across all of Flowers’ trials, 61 of the 72 jurors were White. All 61 voted to convict.
In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Evans and the state of Mississippi had violated Flowers’ constitutional rights and overturned his conviction yet again. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that there was a “relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of Black individuals.” Six months later, Flowers was released on bail, leaving jail for the first time in 23 years.
“And I’m telling you, I felt like I was floating. I was just ready to go,” Flowers told CBS News in 2021.
Sharyn Alfonsi contributed to this report.
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