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| Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., last surviving Birmingham bomber, denied parole |
| By counton2.com |
| Published: 08/05/2016 |
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An Alabama parole board Wednesday denied the last surviving Birmingham church bomber’s first attempt to get out of prison. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., an 86-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman serving a life sentence for the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing that killed four young black girls, won’t be able to apply again for parole for another five years, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles said. The parole board’s decision was applauded by the busload of NAACP members who attended the hearing wearing yellow lanyards that read: “No Parole For Thomas Blanton.” “This is something that many of them thought that they wouldn’t have to revisit again in their lifetime,” local NAACP chief Hezekiah Jackson told WVTM-13, the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, before the hearing. “So this is now almost like opening old wounds.” Read More. |
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