Parker Yesko

Not long after the Tardy Furniture murders, Doug Evans may have sent an innocent man to prison.

If prosecutors didn't turn over critical evidence to the defense, Curtis Flowers could get a new trial.

Catherine Snow and Porky Collins picked Curtis Flowers out of photo lineups. But, according to two experts, the flawed procedures used by investigators make these identifications highly questionable.

The most extensive record of Johnson talking about his work comes from a sworn deposition he gave in 1978 after he was sued in federal court.

How to spend nearly three decades in office.

There was overwhelming evidence that J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant had murdered the 14-year-old in 1955, but they never spent a day in prison thanks to an all-white jury.

The state penitentiary began more than a century ago as a way to subjugate African-Americans after the end of slavery, and it later maintained segregation well into the 1970s. And it's where Curtis Flowers has spent much of his adult life, sometimes in brutal conditions.

The jailhouse informant's testimony helped win a conviction — and his recantation might scuttle it.

They can rely on jailhouse informants, if the testimony is true.

After his arrest in 1997, Curtis Flowers was placed in a small cell with up to eight other inmates. Here's what happened next, in their own words.

How a key player in the Curtis Flowers case came to need a gun.

In the hours after the shootings, investigators were under tremendous pressure to solve the crime. But they had little evidence to go on.

A year at the crossroads of Mississippi.

Why double jeopardy doesn't apply in the Curtis Flowers case.