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While the show, hosted by Madeleine Baran, and produced by American Public Media, has received nothing but praise for highlighting how Curtis Flowers was unfairly tried for a crime six times by a while prosecutor who went out of his way to exclude black jurors, one website says the show has gone too far.
Flowers has been tried six times for allegedly killing four people in a furniture store back in 1996. He’s been in prison for the crimes for over 20 years and was on death row until The Supreme Court decided in June that County Attorney Doug Evans went out of his way to exclude black jurors. Evans has tried Flowers all six times. Reporting from In The Dark helped overturn the case at the Supreme Court. The podcast has been downloaded over 24 million times.
The Outline’s F.T. Green says the show was right in pointing out what happened to Flowers, however, he argues that trying to pin the 1996 murders in Mississippi on another man is taking the podcast one step too far. Green says the show is now snitching to the system it was first complaining about was unjust.
Read his reasoning HERE