Malcom X assassin to walk free after 4 decades

[IDemo]

Published: Friday March 19, 2010

The killer of African-American rights activist Malcolm X will be paroled next month after more than four decades in the prison system, an official said Friday.

Thomas Hagan, who confessed to the 1965 shooting of Malcolm X, has been partially free on work release for the last 22 years, although he was still required to spend two nights a week at a low-security Manhattan prison.

"He is tentatively scheduled to be released on April 28," New York state parole board spokesman Marc Violette told AFP.

The decision was taken at a parole hearing on March 3, Violette said. Such hearings are not widely publicized and the news only emerged this week.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Malcom_X_assassin_to_walk_free_afte_03192010.html

[bluestateguy]

1. DISgusting

nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. I doubt he'll be "free" for very long.

Bookmark this thread. He'll be dead within a week.

[GrantDem]

4. I believe you may be right.

[whistler162]

7. If no one has done it in 22 years of work release

, 5 days a week on the outside, then it probably won't happen now.

[maxsolomon]

3. 22 years of work release?

did he ever implicate anyone higher up in the NOI or did he take the full rap?

[BunkerHill24]

5. Unacceptable. n/t

[whistler162]

6. Rawstory is kind of minimalistic in background

Hagan is the last of the men convicted shooting Malcom X to be paroled. The only one to take responsibility, he said the others where innocent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/nyregion/20parole.html