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OBILE, Ala. - A m Uy bite
Jury emotional pleas to are
We of a Ku Klux Klansman con-
victed of �a Iy killlng a Blac
teenal�r and leaving his body hang­
Ing from a tree, but a jud could still
te HenryH ystodeath.
Ha 29, as fOUDd guilty I t
of brutally beating, angling and
asblng throat of 19-year-old
Donald on arch 21, 1981, then
hanging his body from a tree on a
downto street iii hat prosecuto
called "the m t atroci crime in
tmemory."
jury of 11 bites and one Blac
ref to recommend Hays die In Al­
abama' electric chair, In tead
ug!U\& Circuit Court Judge Braxton
to tence the Klansman to
a_'&.UI'urison thou parole.
Kittrell will formally sentence Hay
Jan. 19. Altbougb Judges ally ac­
cept jury' recommendation, Kit­
trell could Impose the death penalty.
Hay an "exalted cyclops" In
local an bad maInta1Ded a stone
f ce during the -day trial, staring
Icily t 1 a they titled
aboU involvement In e aying
th tared ee of r clal demon-
traUo In Alabama's port city.
But the cool composure faded after
the jury announced Its verdict and
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Hays began eeplng openly on the
stand be ed the jury to are his
life.
"It's not fair," he told the jury in a
10 , quivering voice ..
Defense attorney .A. "Bubba"
ars8I ed Hays if be killed Don­
ald.
" o. " be said sofUy as he burst into
te
Hay , mother and father also too
the stand to the jury for mercv.
But District Attorney Tom Hamson
told the jury the crime was so belnous
only the death penalty ould be ap­
propriate.
arsa1 said the conviction ouId be
"the east t c ever appealed in my
life," and predicted the verdict ouId
not stand. -
Tbe proscection's c featured tes-
timony from Hays' ex- fe aDd for­
mer klansmen bo said be bad
dmltted killing Donald, but the most
damagin witness was co-defendant
Jam Lie eUyn "Tiger" Knowles. .
Knowles said be and Hays selected .
Donald at random to vent their anger
over a mistrial granted a Blac Chi­
cago drifter charged with killing a
bite Birminldlam policeman.
Knowles, 20, of rural Grand Bay,
pleaded guilty to federal charges of
viQlatlng Donald' . clvtl rights.
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