Curtis Flowers, the Mississippi man tried six times for the murders of four people in 1996, left prison on bail Monday after a judge granted him conditional release for the first time in 23 years.

Hes extremely happy to be out, Rob McDuff, Flowerss attorney, told The Washington Post . I think he had a sense that this was going to work out this time around.

The bond was set at $250,000, and an anonymous donor paid 10% of the fee. Flowers will be required to wear an ankle monitor while he is out on release.

Flowerss case was featured on American Public Medias groundbreaking In the Dark podcast , which examined the district attorneys use of peremptory strikes to remove many potential Black jurors from cases.

Flowers has been brought before a jury six times in the deaths of four people at a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, in 1996. All-white juries convicted Flowers in the first three trials, but each of the rulings were overturned by the state Supreme Court. Juries failed to reach a verdict in the fourth and fifth trials, and the sixth resulted in a guilty verdict and Flowers was sentenced to death.

His attorneys appealed the final ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned that as well in June . Flowerss attorneys argued at the time that the white district attorney, Doug Evans, had excluded potential Black jurors on the basis of race during the 2010 trial. The court agreed.

In the six trials combined, the State struck 41 of the 42 black prospective jurors it could have struck, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the decision. At the sixth trial, the State struck five of six. At the sixth trial, moreover, the State engaged in dramatically disparate questioning of black and white prospective jurors. And it engaged in disparate treatment of black and white prospective jurors.