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Mayor of Birmingham Larry Langford (D) was sentenced on March 5, 2010, to 15 years in prison for conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme. (2010) [8] He was also fined more than $119,000. [9]
Smith's wing of the party aimed to pass a plank in the party platform condemning the KKK by name, and declaring it to be "un-American". [5] [8] Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama, who was hoping to be a dark horse candidate if the convention deadlocked, joined with Smith's allies to champion the adoption of the anti-KKK plank. Underwood ...
Then-Alabama Governor Don Siegelman announced another $10,000 funds to augment the reward. [6] [33] An Ozark resident said he knew information regarding the killings. [34] He said a man had met the girls at the gas station and taken them into the woods.The police discovered that this was a false statement to claim the reward. [34]
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Alabama has scheduled the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia, an alternative to lethal injection, its Republican governor said. Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution by lethal injection ...
Mark Everett Fuller (born December 27, 1958, Enterprise, Alabama) [1] is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Fuller is most recognizable for presiding over the controversial case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. [2]
The history of another conservative populist — former Alabama governor George Wallace — indicates that such fears are well founded. Wallace is most remembered for the racism and racial ...
William Hugh Smith (April 26, 1826 – January 1, 1899) was an American planter and politician, the 21st Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. He was the first Republican elected as governor in the state, serving from 1868 to 1870 during the period of Reconstruction . [ 1 ]