This week, prosecutors are hoping his sixth trial will be the last. Flowers, 40, is believed to be the only person in recent US history to be tried six times on the same capital murder charges.
Flowers has been convicted three times and sentenced to death twice, but the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed those verdicts and ordered a new trial each time. His two most recent trials ended in hung juries, leading his supporters to question why the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office continues to seek a conviction.
The prosecution's case is based largely on circumstantial evidence. There is no DNA, the alleged murder weapon has not been found and eyewitnesses who say they saw Flowers the day of the shooting have provided conflicting accounts.
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2 comments:
What happened to double jeopardy? Or in this guy's case, sextuple jeopardy.
The prosecutors are hoping this will be the last trial, but if they won't get a conviction, I guess they are willing to try again and again until they do. That's what I'd call justice.
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