Black People : White Executed For Murdering Black?

spicybrown said:
If I'm not mistaken, two of the three men guilty of the dragging death of the Texas Brother(rest his soul), are scheduled for execution in the future. I don't wish death on any innocent soul, but this particular case will bring about justice long overdue.

...............You mean James Bryd, Jr? And if you did, I don't think they will face the death penalty; they will just 'rot in the cell' like Byron De La Beckwith, the person responsible for the assassination of Medgar Evers.

CD
 
Wrong, destee.Are you from Mobile?How can you forget the Donald hanging and a white person was executed for the crime and his mother with Morris Dees sued the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and owned their building with the judgement? Also in AL during slavery a white person was executed for killing a Black. A po white trash killed a slave and the slave owner pushed for execution cause the po white man could not reimburse him the value of the slave.Treated as a property crime. That case was cited when the Donald trial was going on.
 
yaphet al-wynn said:
Wrong, destee.Are you from Mobile?How can you forget the Donald hanging and a white person was executed for the crime and his mother with Morris Dees sued the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and owned their building with the judgement? Also in AL during slavery a white person was executed for killing a Black. A po white trash killed a slave and the slave owner pushed for execution cause the po white man could not reimburse him the value of the slave.Treated as a property crime. That case was cited when the Donald trial was going on.

Brother Yaphet Al-Wynn ... what am i wrong about?

Yes, you're absolutely right, i am from Mobile and i forgot about Michael Donald! I had just moved back to Mobile, in late 1981, and Michael was killed in March of '81. I remember thinking back then, gosh, is this the place to be?!

I found the following story regarding Michael Donald, for those interested:


Even after the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, lynchings persisted in the Deep South, the most significant of which was the illegal execution of nineteen year old Michael Donald.

In 1981, a black man who was charged with the murder of a white policeman, stood trial in Mobile, Alabama. When his trial took place, the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Upset Ku Klux Klan members believed that some black members of the jury had affected this outcome and at a meeting after the trial, Bennie Hays, the second-highest ranking official in the Alabama Klan said: "If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a black man."

On Saturday March, 21, 1981, Bennie Hays' son, Henry Hays, and James Knowles, decided they would get revenge for the failure of the courts to convict the African American for killing a policeman.

Michael Donald was lynched in Mobile, Alabama on March 21, 1981.

Traveling around Mobile in their car, they soon found Michael Donald walking home. Donald had nothing to do with the murder of the police officer and was in no way involved in the trial. He was just a an innocent man that the KKK chose randomly to exact revenge for the acquittal of the other man during the trial. When the pair spotted Michael Donald, they forced him into their car, drove to the next county and lynched him.

An investigation resulted in the local police finding that Donald had been murdered over a drug deal gone bad. However, Beulah Mae Donald knew her son was not involved in drugs and resolved to obtain justice. Soon, Jessie Jackson and the FBI were involved and it did not take long before FBI agent, James Bodman was able to obtain a confession from James Knowles.

In June 1983, Knowles was found guilty of violating Donald's civil rights and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Six months later, when Henry Hays was tried for murder, Knowles appeared as chief prosecution witness. Hays was found guilty and sentenced to death.

But Beaulah Mae Donald was not yet done with her determination to obtain justice. She soon filed a civil suit against the United Klans of America. In February, 1987, an all-white jury found the Klan responsible for the lynching of Michael Donald and ordered it to pay 7 million dollars. This resulted in the Klan having to hand over all its assets including its national headquarters in Tuscaloosa.

After a long-drawn out legal struggle, Henry Hayes was executed on June 6, 1997. It was the first time a white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913.

As the article states, the above is the first time a white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913.

Have there been any since Henry Hayes in 1997?

Hmmmm ... a White man executed in 1913 for crimes against an African American? Does anyone know about this 1913 incident? Who or what was that about?

Thanks Brother for helping me to recall this.

:heart:

Destee

ps ... here is another link regarding Michael Donald.

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panafrica said:
Thank you for the history lesson!

Yeah Pan ... thanks to everyone who shared in this thread! :toast:

The history lesson isn't over ... we need to find out about the 1913 execution. I've been looking on the Internet and have only been able to come up with the following:


The last execution of white men for killing a black person in Alabama had taken place in 1913 when two outlaws were hung for shooting and killing a black cockfighting trainer on a mountain in northern Alabama.

Interesting huh? No names (yet) ... just two outlaw white men, hung for killing a Black man!?

Family ... if yall know or find anything about this (or other executions), please share. Thanks.

:heart:

Destee
 

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