Nation : White Jury Convicts Ala. Klansman
<i> From Times wire services</i>
MOBILE, Ala. — An all-white jury today convicted a former Ku Klux Klansman of murder for providing the rope and pistol used in the killing of a black teen-ager whose body was hung from a tree.
Benjamin Franklin Cox, 27, whispered, “I love you” to his weeping wife before county deputies led him away in handcuffs.
Circuit Judge Michael Zoghby revoked Cox’s $28,000 bond and set a June 23 sentencing hearing. Cox could be sentenced to 10 years to life in the March 21, 1981, strangulation and hanging of 19-year-old Michael Donald.
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