The FBI reopened the case and indicted Blanton and Cherry in 2000. Blanton perpetrated in 1963, the message is we have to stop the hate and we will punish those who kill or maim in the name of hate," said Jones.īlanton's companions Robert Chambliss was convicted in 1977 while Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted in 2002. Donaldson Correctional Facility from unspecified causes while serving his life sentence, six days after his 82nd birthday. On June 26, 2020, Blanton died at William E. Parole was denied and deferred until 2021. "Whether it's racial issues, whether it's gender issues, whether it is terrorist activity similar to what Mr. Blanton went before the parole board on August 3, 2016. attorney Doug Jones who prosecuted Blanton said the Klansman should not be granted parole since he has admitted responsiblity for the bombing and has not expressed regret. "We were at that church learning about love and forgiveness when someone was outside doing hateful things," she said.ĭuring the parole hearing, those who opposed Blanton's parole occupied seats reserved for inmates' relatives.įormer U.S. Rudolph, 65, pleaded the board to deny Blanton's parole. They were killed instantly while Collins' sister Sarah Collins Rudolph was seriously injured. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., convicted in 2001 of the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed 4 girls, died on Friday. Kay Ivey’s office said Blanton died of natural causes. The four victims were inside the church when the blast occurred. (AP) Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement, died Friday in prison, officials said. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombing. Clair prison and will be eligible for parole in five years, the board said. was a young Ku Klux Klansman with a reputation for hating blacks in 1963, when a bomb ripped a hole in the side of 16th Street Baptist Church, killing. McNair's sister, Lisa McNair lauded the board's decision.īlanton is serving time at St. The bombing killed 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson and 11-year-old Denise McNair. , also lost his appeal to the Alabama Court of. 15, 1963, was denied parole Wednesday due to the opposition of victims' families.īlanton has served 15 years of a life sentence as part of the group that planted dynamites outside the church, the Associated Press reported. parole based on 1940 laws that were operative in 1963 when the crime was committed. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., 78, the only surviving Klansman convicted in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on Sept. The Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole has denied parole to a Ku Klux Klan member serving sentence for killing four black girls in a church bombing in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama.
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