Appeal in ’96 Slayings Back Before Miss. High Court

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One of Mississippi’s longest-running death penalty cases goes before the Mississippi Supreme Court on July 21 for oral argument.

Curtis Giovanni Flowers has been convicted four times for the 1996 slayings of four workers at a Winona furniture store. He is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to toss out his latest conviction and death sentence.

Two trials in Montgomery County ended with hung juries. Three trials ended in convictions, but the high court reversed them. The fourth conviction came in 2010.

The 44-year-old Flowers was convicted of capital murder in the 1996 fatal shootings of furniture store owner Bertha Tardy and employees Carmen Rigby and Robert Golden as well as Derrick “BoBo” Stewart.

 

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