Mississippi Burnings KKK leader Killen dies in prison at 92
Source: SFGATE
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state's corrections department announced Friday.
The one-time Klan leader was serving three consecutive 20-year terms for manslaughter when he died at 9 p.m. Thursday night inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary. An autopsy was pending, but no foul play was suspected, the corrections' statement said.
His conviction came 41 years to the day after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, all in their 20s, were ambushed and killed by Klansmen on June 21, 1964. The three Freedom Summer workers had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi. A deputy sheriff in Philadelphia had arrested them on a traffic charge, then released them after alerting a mob. Mississippi's then-governor claimed their disappearance was a hoax before their bodies were dug up.
The slayings shocked the nation, helped spur passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Mississippi-Burnings-killer-Killen-dies-in-12493722.php
Will end up in hell where he shall rot! Good riddance!
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)POS will now face God's justice and will have his name forever enshrined as a POS racist scumbag...may he NOT rest in peace and suffer god's judgment forever more...we can forgive but never forget...
George II
(67,782 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)If Killen had croaked a few hours earlier, trump could have proclaimed it "Edgar Ray Killen Day," instead of that laughable CYA ceremony directed at the life and works of MLK Jr. this morning. Think how thrilled trump's base would have been!
In all seriousness, however: Fuck Edgar Ray Killen, and any who mourn his passing.
christx30
(6,241 posts)I was about to ask how long until Trump orders flags to half-mast.
5X
(3,972 posts)meadowlander
(4,394 posts)Shame he didn't go to prison until he was 79 though. How much damage did he manage in the first 79 years of his life?
longship
(40,416 posts)And a rather great supporting cast.
Granted it has the obligatory Hollywood fictionalization, but that doesn't much detract from a very powerful film.
Trailer:
It's truly good.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)"Attack on Terror - The FBI vs the Ku Klux Klan" .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Terror:_The_FBI_vs._the_Ku_Klux_Klan
This was the opening of it:
longship
(40,416 posts)I still like Mississippi Burning, in spite of its Hollywoodization of the facts.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)kimbutgar
(21,134 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)he's going to have a massive heart attack...
Kristofer Bry
(175 posts)Kinda the opposite of R.I.P.
jpak
(41,757 posts)FU
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Good riddance. He looks like a really ugly chicken, with a hangover.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)and he's coming back as a refugee sold into slavery.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)Aristus
(66,326 posts)Such lovely words. I'm all choked up...
CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)Don't Please don't!
matt819
(10,749 posts)No news reports, no reliving the past, no martyrdom by todays nazis.
niyad
(113,275 posts)edbermac
(15,938 posts)yonder
(9,664 posts)...though I suspect you wont be seeing much of that.
sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)lastlib
(23,220 posts)He's dead--GOOD!
An obit I read with great satisfaction.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)If there is a hell..I hope this hateful POS is screaming in eternal pain
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)for this one.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)They knew that, by working for civil rights, they were risking their lives.
They won. They had the last laugh.
From Kim and Reggie Harris and Magpie, my favorite version of the song in their memory:
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)inside and out.
Good riddance, you piece of trash. The world is now a better place without you and we can save some taxpayers' money by not supporting your ugly ass in prison.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)DiverDave
(4,886 posts)This piece of crap should burn.
Piss on him.