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Will sixth time be the charm in capital trial(s) of Curtis Flowers?

By Douglas A. Berman

CNN has this interesting report on what appears to be a record-setting capital trial scheduled to start this week in Mississippi.  Here is how the piece gets started: Curtis Flowers has stood before five juries in the past 13 years on capital murder charges, accused of killing four people in a Mississippi furniture store.  This week, prosecutors are hoping his sixth trial will be the last. Flowers, 40, is believed to be the only person in recent U.S. history to be tried six times on the same capital murder charges. Bertha Tardy, the owner of Tardy's Furniture in downtown Winona, and three employees were shot execution-style in the head the morning of July 16, 1996, inside the store, court records say. The shootings rattled the sleepy central Mississippi town, with a population of about 5,500 that has declined in the 14 years since then...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).