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Curtis Flowers, Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, Dies at 56

Flowers spent 23 years on Mississippi's death row before prosecutors dropped charges in 2019. His case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection after a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

Utah Man Freed on Bail After 41 Years on Death Row as New DNA Evidence Emerges

Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, walked out of a Utah jail Monday after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence does not link him to the 1985 murder that sent him to death row.