Former KKK member convicted in deadly bombing up for parole

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | July 30, 2016 9:12 am | JAY REEVES

[COBOL2Java]

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. 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 four black girls during the civil rights movement.

Today, Blanton is old and imprisoned, the last survivor among three one-time KKK members convicted of murder in the bombing. Soon, Alabama’s parole board will decide whether Blanton deserves to be free after serving 15 years of a life term for murder.

The board has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to consider parole for the 78-year-old Blanton. Inmates are not allowed to attend parole hearings in Alabama, but opponents of Blanton’s release are expected to address the three-person board when it meets in Montgomery.

[HarleyLady27]

Klan Loves Hillary #3 word Hillary....

[trisham]

He should never get out.

[Dawgreg]

Hell no! Make that inbred, evil demon spend the rest of his hate-filled life in a cell! In a perfect world he and his evil cohorts SHOULD have been electrocuted before the decade of the 60’s ended!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

He needs to die in prison

[Still Thinking]

Damn right.

[Still Thinking]

It’s a damn shame we’re still feeding this filth. Fire up Old Sparky.

[abclily]

Double tap his head.

[MonicaG]

No joke. We’ve paid to house the crazed manson crew since before I was born... I learned about Sharon Tate as a teen (so pretty!) and grieve for all the victims families and as a taxpayer for the insanity of keeping these people in play... one of the many insanities of my geographically lovely home state.

[packrat35]

Let him rot