Bibb Graves

Alabama was the last state to end it, 1928.

Alabama had been run by Democrats the whole time, and the governor who finally ended it, Bibb Graves, was a Democrat and the Grand Cyclops of the Montgomery Ku Klux Klan, elected with Klan votes.

The journalist Douglas Blackmon called it slavery by another name.

Tens of thousands of people arrested on flimsy charges, fined and charged for the cost of their own arrest.

Clarence Norris was again sentenced to death.

Governor Bibb Graves commuted that sentence to life in 1938.

Charlie Weems was paroled in 1943.

Clarence Norris and Andy Wright were paroled in 1944. and they were returned to prison after leaving Alabama in violation of parole conditions and were later released again.