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American Public Media will soon release the third season of the gripping crime podcast In the Dark. In The Dark’s second season spanned the course of a year in Mississippi and revealed misconduct, injustice, and racial divide in the death row case of Curtis Flowers. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if the prosecutor engaged in racial discrimination in the jury selection in Flowers’ latest trial.
Beginning next month, In the Dark goes to Washington, DC, to cover the Supreme Court arguments, decision, and implications in the Flowers case with four new episodes. The podcast’s first episode will be available March 19. Three subsequent episodes will come out between the March 20 oral arguments and the end of the court’s term in late June.
A preview of In the Dark’s new episodes is available here.
The ruling will determine whether Flowers remains on death row or faces the possibility of Doug Evans – the district attorney – trying him for a seventh time, offering a plea deal, or dismissing the charges altogether.
Listeners can stay up-to-date on breaking news in the Flowers case, and when new In the Dark episodes publish, by subscribing to the In the Dark email newsletter.