Convicted Church Bomber Dies in Prison
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of killing four black girls in a racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963, died Thursday in prison. He was 74.
Cherry died at about 3:30 p.m. in the hospital unit at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.
Cherry was convicted in May 2002 in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a gathering place for civil rights demonstators in Birmingham, and was sentenced to life in prison. It was the deadliest act of the civil rights era.
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