柯蒂斯·弗劳尔斯在56岁时去世。他的案件成为种族偏见的象征。
Curtis Flowers Has Died at 56. His Case Became a Symbol of Racial Bias.
一位白人地区检察官就同一谋杀案对弗劳尔斯先生进行了六次审判，总是确保陪审团中很少有或没有黑人。
A white district attorney tried Mr. Flowers six times for the same murder, always ensuring that few or no Black people were on the juries.
柯蒂斯·弗劳尔斯是一名黑人男子，他在同一密西西比州谋杀案中的六次审判成为陪审团选择中种族偏见的全国性象征，导致最高法院于2019年推翻了他的死刑判决。他于本周在密西西比州威诺纳的家中去世，享年56岁。
Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials in the same Mississippi murder case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection, leading the Supreme Court to reverse his capital conviction in 2019, died at home this week in Winona, Miss. He was 56.
他的姐姐普里西拉·弗劳尔斯-沃德说，他一直患有晚期糖尿病，家人正在等待尸检以确定死因。
His sister Priscilla Flowers-Ward said he had been suffering from advanced diabetes, and that the family was awaiting an autopsy to identify the cause of death.
弗劳尔斯先生于2019年12月从密西西比州帕奇曼监狱的死囚区转移并获释，此前他在狱中度过了近23年。他的获释是在最高法院裁定他的第六次审判中黑人被违宪地排除在陪审团之外之后。
Mr. Flowers was transferred off death row in Parchman prison in Mississippi and released in December 2019, after nearly 23 years behind bars. His release followed the Supreme Court’s ruling that Black people had been unconstitutionally excluded from the jury in his sixth trial.
在7比2的多数意见中，布雷特·M·卡瓦诺大法官写道，密西西比州采取了“无情、坚决的努力，将黑人从陪审团中清除”。弗劳尔斯先生在那次审判中被判犯有1996年在威诺纳一家家具店杀害四人的罪行，他曾在威诺纳（密西西比州中部的一个小城市）的这家店工作过。
In the 7-2 majority opinion, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote that the state of Mississippi had pursued a “relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of Black individuals.”Mr. Flowers was convicted in that trial of killing four people in 1996 at a furniture store where he had once worked in Winona, a small city in central Mississippi.
白人地区检察官道格·埃文斯审理了弗劳尔斯先生的所有六起案件，他花了二十年时间使用同样的策略：确保在这个黑人占多数的县里，很少有或没有黑人居民进入弗劳尔斯先生的陪审团。
The white district attorney, Doug Evans, who tried all of Mr. Flowers’s six cases, spent two decades employing the same tactic: ensuring that few or no Black residents in the majority-Black county were seated on Mr. Flowers’s juries.