A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Attorney General told CNN that the allegations against Flowers about the deaths of four people were denied.
The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office filed a motion dismissing the allegations against Flowers, saying “it is in the interests of justice that the state will not seek an unprecedented seventh hearing of Mr. Flowers.”
“Evidence has arisen today, there is no legal witness to bring Mr. Flowers to life that is alive and available and there are no multiple, contradictory statements in the record.” The prosecution wrote in motion.
The murder of four people inside a furniture store in Vinona, Mississippi, was accused of killing the capital of flowers. Prosecutors allege that Flowers stole a .380-caliber pistol and shot dead store owner Beth Tardy and three employees on July 16, 1996.
Flowers once worked for Tardy and, according to the prosecutor, killed him because he fired him after his paycheck for damaging a pair of batteries. He killed three other victims to eliminate witnesses, prosecutors allege. Tardy and the two victims were White; One was black.
He was in prison for two decades and faced six murder trials. The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Flower’s first three convictions, two of which were sentenced to death, and the next two hearings ended in a hanging jury.
Following his last hearing in 2010, a Montgomery County jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death.
His lawyers appealed the case and last year, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Flowers deserved a new hearing because state attorney Doug Evans was engaged in unconstitutional racial discrimination by striking African American jurors from the panel.
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