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someone has taken a young man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> michael donald was an innocent good samaritan, not a thug. >> the mobile police department just didn't want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. >> that's why we kept marching and protesting, letting them know we were going to take this lion down. >> the admitted klansmen turned to action as the words, guilty of capital murder, sank in. >> it was the first time since at least the early 1900s that a white had been sentenced to death for a crime committed against a bl...

He said, if my association with the klan makes me guilty, i apologize for that. he never said, i committed this crime. >> we're about to close a chapter in what many call the last lynching in america. henry hayes has four and a half hours now to say his final goodbyes to his family and friends. >> i have no idea what i'm fixing to go through. >> this guy only had numbers of years to realize to this point what's been happening to him. he had plenty of opportunities to correct himself, but he's a diehard klansman. >> so when we went to the execution, the news media came down and said, one of you...

He had plenty of opportunities to correct himself, but he's a diehard klansman. >> and so, when we went to the execution, the news media came down and said, "one of you all can go in." he say, "i'm going." stanley said, "i'm going in." and when he went in, henry hays looked at him and said, "will you forgive me?" and he said, "i forgive you." >> 42-year-old henry hays died in alabama's electric chair early this morning after refusing a last meal. >> and i think we cried all the way back home from holman prison. we cried all the way back home. because we knew that chapter was finally over. nobo...