Henry Francis Hays


 

 

Age: 42

 

Summary: member of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 abduction and lynching-style murder of 19-year-old African-American Michael Donald in order to build up a strength in the state's KKK uprising, and who became the first person executed for a white-on-black crime in Alabama history since 1913.

 

 

Cause of Death: Executed by electric chair

 

Born: November 10, 1954

 

Died: June 6, 1997

 

Location: Atmore, Alabama