<P> Governor Robert J. Bentley said to the press that day: </P> <P> While we could not take back what happened to the Scottsboro Boys 80 years ago, we found a way to make it right moving forward . The pardons granted to the Scottsboro Boys today are long overdue . The legislation that led to today's pardons was the result of a bipartisan, cooperative effort . I appreciate the Pardons and Parole Board for continuing our progress today and officially granting these pardons . Today, the Scottsboro Boys have finally received justice . </P> <Ul> <Li> In 1936, Haywood Patterson was convicted of rape and sentenced to 75 years in prison . He escaped in 1949 and in 1950 was found in Michigan, but the governor refused to extradite him . In 1951 he was convicted of an assault and sentenced to prison, where he died of cancer in 1952 . </Li> <Li> In 1936, Ozie Powell was involved in an altercation with a guard and shot in the face, suffering permanent brain damage . In 1937 He pleaded guilty to assault, and the rape charges were dropped . He was paroled in 1946 . </Li> <Li> 1937, Charlie Weems was convicted and sentenced to 105 years . He was paroled in 1943 after having been held in prison for a total of 12 years in some of Alabama's worst institutions . </Li> <Li> 1937, Andy Wright was convicted and sentenced to 99 years . He was paroled and returned to prison after violating parole . He was paroled in New York State in 1950 . </Li> <Li> 1937, Clarence Norris was convicted of rape and was the only defendant sentenced to death . Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama in 1938 commuted his death sentence to life . Given parole in 1946, he "jumped" and went into hiding . In 1976 he was found in Brooklyn, New York . Governor George Wallace pardoned him that year, declaring him "not guilty". Norris published an autobiography, The Last of the Scottsboro Boys (1979). He died of Alzheimer's disease on January 23, 1989 . </Li> <Li> In 1937, the state dropped all charges for Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright, who had already been in prison for six years . </Li> <Li> Roy Wright had a career in the US Army and Merchant Marine . In 1959, believing his wife had been unfaithful during his tour, he shot and killed her, and shot himself, committing suicide . </Li> <Li> 2013, the state of Alabama issues posthumous pardons for Patterson, Weems, and Andy Wright . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In 1936, Haywood Patterson was convicted of rape and sentenced to 75 years in prison . He escaped in 1949 and in 1950 was found in Michigan, but the governor refused to extradite him . In 1951 he was convicted of an assault and sentenced to prison, where he died of cancer in 1952 . </Li>

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