Curtis Flowers is a Mississippi man who was tried six times for the same crime and whose case was the subject of Season 2 of the APM Reports podcast "In the Dark". He spent nearly 23 years behind bars and endured six trials and four death sentences for four murders he has always maintained he did not commit. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal. Flowers' case was one of three that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2016 were to be remanded to lower courts to be reviewed for evidence of racial bias in jury selection.

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy held its Spring 2016 symposium on the American Death Penalty After Glossip. The symposium, features several of the country's leading experts in the field, assesses the implications of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Glossip v. Gross, as well geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty and use of statistics in death penalty litigation.

Opening Remarks: Matthew Sloan, Special Projects Editor, DJCLPP
Introduction to the American Death Penalty: Henderson Hill, The Eighth Amendment Project

The Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy held its Spring 2016 symposium on the American Death Penalty After Glossip. The symposium, features several of the country's leading experts in the field, assesses the implications of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Glossip v. Gross, as well geographic disparities in the application of the death penalty and use of statistics in death penalty litigation.