Religions > Atheism > OT: Ex-KKK member guilty of manslaughter in 'Mississippi Burning' trial.
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21 Jun 2005 11:43:45 AM |
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OT: Ex-KKK member guilty of manslaughter in 'Mississippi Burning' trial. |
Flash from the BBC. No details yet.
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ex-KKK member guilty of manslaughter in 'Mississippi Burning' trial. |
21 Jun 2005 08:57:36 PM |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:43:45 GMT, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
Flash from the BBC. No details yet.
It damn sure took long enough.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "magilla" |
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21 Jun 2005 11:44:40 AM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
Flash from the BBC. No details yet.
I thought for sure it would stay a hung jury.
Chris
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Ex-KKK member guilty of manslaughter in 'Mississippi Burning' trial. |
21 Jun 2005 12:46:28 PM |
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On 21 Jun 2005 09:44:40 -0700 in alt.atheism, magilla ("magilla"
<chris.linthompson@gmail.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
Therion Ware wrote:
Flash from the BBC. No details yet.
I thought for sure it would stay a hung jury.
Erm, yes...
Anyway, it says here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4116870.stm
Mississippi ex-Klansman convicted
A US jury has convicted a former Ku Klux Klan member of manslaughter
over the mob killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
The jury in Mississippi rejected murder charges against Edgar Ray
Killen, now aged 80, but found him guilty of recruiting a mob to kill
the three.
The jury had resumed deliberations on Tuesday after earlier telling
the judge they could not agree.
The killings outraged Americans and energised the civil rights
movement.
They later formed the basis for the Hollywood film Mississippi
Burning.
The defendant had denied taking any part in the killings of Michael
Schwerner, 24, Andy Goodman, 20, and James Chaney, 21.
Killen showed no emotion as the verdict was read in the courtroom in
the town of Philadelphia.
Prosecutors earlier made an impassioned plea for his conviction,
saying the victims' families had waited a long 41 years for justice.
"Is a Neshoba County jury going to tell the rest of the world that we
are not going to let Edgar Ray Killen get away with murder any more?
Not one day more."
The activists were two white men from New York and a local black
colleague, who were killed while campaigning for the registration of
black voters.
They were abducted as they drove out of the Mississippi town. Their
bodies were buried at a dam.
Mr Killen, who was a suspect in the original investigation but never
convicted, was re-arrested after new evidence emerged.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/4116870.stm
Published: 2005/06/21 17:06:44 GMT
© BBC MMV
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