Aimee Clesi

My university scholars project will assess the death penalty, wrongful conviction, and mass incarceration in the United States, largely through the lens of Curtis Flowers case in Mississippi and recent death penalty jurisprudence. I hope to conduct research that will situate Flowers case within the larger framework of racism in the South and reveal firsthand the real excesses of southern justice. While Flowers case is egregious, it is at some level typical of the criminal justice system we have in America today.