They died instantly, and Collins’ sister Sarah Collins Rudolph was seriously injured. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., convicted of bombing the 16th Street Baptist Church, was denied parole. The girls were inside the church preparing for worship when the bomb went off, sending stone and brick flying. The blast killed the 11-year-old McNair and 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Morris, also known as Cynthia Wesley. Crime Charged: Murder Chief Defense Lawyer: John C. Wednesday at Brown Service Norwood with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Crime Charged: Murder Chief Defense Lawyer: John C. Blanton Funeral for Thomas Edwin Blanton, 83, 1440 Princeton Ave., SW, who died Monday at a local hospital, will be at 3 p.m.
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Clair prison, will again be eligible for parole consideration in five years, the board said.īlanton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Sept. Blanton Trial (AlabamaChurch Bombing): 2001. Obituary from the Tuesday, AugBirmingham News: T.E. Lisa McNair, a sister of bombing victim Denise McNair, was relieved by the decision.īlanton, who lives in a one-person cell and rarely has contact with other inmates at St. The board rejected parole for Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., 78, who has served 15 years of a life term for being part of a group of Klansmen who planted a bomb outside Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church during the civil rights movement.
The lone surviving Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for killing four black girls in a bombing in 1963 was refused an early release Wednesday when Alabama’s parole board heeded the victims’ families.
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