Alabama pardons Scottsboro Boys

[the next guy]

Ala. Legislature votes to pardon Scottsboro Boys - CBS News

Opening a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday to allow posthumous pardons for the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women more than 80 years ago.

The bill setting up a procedure to pardon the group must be signed by Gov. Robert Bentley to become law. He plans to study the legislation but has said he favors the pardons.

All but the youngest member of the group, whose ages ranged from 13 to 19, were sent to death row after false accusations from the women and convictions by all-white juries. All were eventually freed without executions. The case became synonymous with racial injustice and set important legal precedents, including a Supreme Court decision that outlawed the practice of systematically excluding black people from juries.

The last of the men died in 1989.

 

[ugksam]

white people are so generous

 

[Heretic]

80 years too late. Disgusting, especially since it means nothing in the grand scope of things now.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

some of them still probably voted against it

 

[the next guy]

80 years too late. Disgusting, especially since it means nothing in the grand scope of things now.

some of them still probably voted against it

pat on the back imo

 

[Izanami]

 

[Box Cutta]

fukking cacs.

 

[Ziggiy]

Gotta love white people...

80 years too late but better late then never!

 

[Mowgli]

How about a jailtime for false rape accusations bill.

 

[Malik]

at 9 people having their lives ruined over hearsay from 12 year old kids

 

[okocharuud]

Delayed JUSTICE is the same as NO JUSTICE

fukk deez cacs....130 later we got in the white house