Scottsboro Boys pardon

The state parole has set a hearing next month to consider whether to issue posthumous pardons for the Scottsboro Boys.An assistant professor at the…

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has signed a bill posthumously pardoning a group of black youths who were wrongfully convicted of raping two white women more…

The Alabama House is to vote on final passage of a bill to clear the names of the Scottsboro Boys. The action comes more than 80 years after the nine…