Evidence against Blanton included secret recordings that were made using FBI bugs at his home and in the car of a fellow Klansman turned informant. was born on month day 1936, in birth place, Texas, to George Edwin Blanton and.
Robert Chambliss, convicted in 1977, and Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted in in 2002, have died in prison.īlanton and Cherry were indicted in 2000 after the FBI reopened an investigation of the bombing. Long a suspect in the case, Blanton was the second of three people convicted in the bombing. attorney who prosecuted Blanton on the state charge, said Blanton shouldn’t be released since he has never accepted responsibility for the bombing or expressed any remorse for a crime that was aimed at maintaining racial separation at a time when Birmingham’s public schools were facing a court order to desegregate. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three one-time Ku Klux Klansmen convicted of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls and was the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement, has died in prison, the governors office said Friday. The board could have allowed him to return as quickly as one year.ĭoug Jones, a former U.S. (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.
Board member Cliff Walker said Blanton can seek another review in five years - the longest possible wait under Alabama law. Only two members heard Blanton’s case, which came up for automatic review. avoided justice for 38 years in the deaths of four girls in Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, before being. was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 20 June 1938, the son of a notorious racist. The board ordinarily has three members but there’s a vacancy. Former Ku Klux Klan member Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. (20 June 1938-26 June 2020) was a Ku Klux Klan member who was one of the perpetrators of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963. Rudolph, of Birmingham, acknowledged that she was nervous about testifying before the board, but added: “I had to come speak for Addie.”
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