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'''Irwin "Red" Craig''' (died 1970) (nicknamed from the color of his hair) was an American. |
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In 1933, he was the sole [[juror]] to refuse to impose the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] in the retrial of [[Haywood Patterson]], one of the [[Scottsboro Boys]], in what was then the small town of [[Decatur, Alabama]]. His son, Sonny, later recalled him as saying: "Those young men were innocent; everybody knew that but they were going to be punished for what they didn't do." The [[Ku Klux Klan]] staked a [[burning cross]] in his family yard. |
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He was called in to see the judge presiding over that retrial, [[James Edwin Horton|James Horton]], who exhorted him to change his vote to guilty. "If you don't, they will kill you, Red," said the judge. Craig protested: "I can't change my vote, judge." Horton replied: "Don't worry about that, I'll take care of it."<ref>{{cite newspaper |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/04/scottsboro-boys-pardon-alabama-senate-house?INTCMP=SRCH |title=Scottsboro Boys pardon nears as Alabama comes to terms with its past |accessdate=February 13, 2015 }}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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{{portal|Biography|Alabama}} |
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* [[List of people from Alabama]] |
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