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On this day in 2002

By Jerry Mitchell,

2023-05-22

MAY 22, 2002

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An Alabama jury convicted Bobby Cherry of taking part in the Ku Klux Klan’s 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls. Cherry received four life sentences — one for each slaying. In 2004, he died in prison.

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