Former Ku Klux Klan member Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. avoided justice for 38 years in the death of four girls in Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. The former U.S. attorney who convicted him, Doug Jones, is betting the 86-year-old Blanton dies behind prison walls. "I think to say it is remote would be a pretty accurate statement," Jones said of the likelihood the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles will free Blanton. Blanton was convicted in 2001 of murdering Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11, and sentenced to life in prison. "Fact of the matter is he bombed a house of God on Sunday morning and killed four children and needs to do the time for his crimes."

Source: CNN August 03, 2016 04:30 UTC