Updated: 12:16 PM PST, March 08, 2021 Curtis Flowers, 50, was also awarded $500,000 by the state of Mississippi for the wrongfully conviction, USA Today reported. Curtis Flowers's story is a remarkable one. The Mississippi man, having been wrongfully incarcerated for 23 years and spent half his life on death row, is now living life to its fullest since his 2019 release, according to a report. In a few weeks, Flowers, 50, will be getting married to his fiancée, who began a correspondence with him while he was in prison. The announcement was made on the Instagram account of American Public radio’s “In the Dark," the popular true-crime podcast that helped bring national attention to Flowers' case.