Updated March 20, 2019
Flowers, 48, was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to death for the July 1996 murders of four people in a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, where he had briefly worked until being fired. While prosecutors and defence lawyers are allowed to use what are called peremptory challenges to eliminate potential jurors they are not allowed to do so on the basis of race.
During the 2010 trial which resulted in Flowers’ conviction and death sentence, Evans rejected five of six potential black jurors. Flowers was arrested several months after the murders when two witnesses said they saw him near the scene of the crime. He has maintained his innocence.
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