The man who assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X is now a free man. Thomas Hagan, 69, was released from Lincoln Correctional Facility on April 27 after serving 44 years in prison.
Hagan was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison with two other men for killing Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York in 1965. The men riddled Malcolm X’s body with bullets as he spoke to a crowd. He was only 39 years old and his wife and children were in the audience.
Has Hagan paid his debt to society, or should he have been given the death penalty for brutally murdering one of the most important black men in American history? –a.r.