High court rejects appeal in 'Miss. Burning' case

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

High court rejects appeal in 'Miss. Burning' case
By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press | November 4, 2013 | Updated: November 4, 2013 2:45pm

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Edgar Ray Killen, convicted of manslaughter in 2005 for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers in what became known as the "Mississippi Burning" case.

The decision means the justices won't review lower-court rulings that found no violations of Killen's constitutional rights during his trial in Mississippi.

Killen, now 88, a former sawmill operator and one-time Baptist preacher, was convicted of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, 41 years to the day after the deaths of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. He is serving 60 years in a Mississippi prison.

In 1964, Schwerner and Goodman, two white men from New York, came to Mississippi as part of Freedom Summer and teamed up with Chaney, a young black Mississippian, to help register black voters. They were ambushed by members of the Klan in Neshoba County and killed before being buried in an earthen dam. Their bodies were found weeks later after an intense search.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/High-court-rejects-appeal-in-Miss-Burning-case-4954125.php

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Youger, older Edgar Ray Killen




These civil rights workers were murdered. , James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner,


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Deputy Cecil Price and Sheriff Lawrence Rainey
lounge in the courtroom during a hearing on
charges brought against them in the murders
of three civil rights workers. Rainey is chewing tobacco.
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[noiretextatique]

1. murdered in 1964, convicted in 2005

41 years of freedom....burn in hell!

[gopiscrap]

2. good and it should have been murder not manslaughter!

[msanthrope]

4. It's a life sentence--60 years. He will die there, as is just. nt

[gopiscrap]

5. still a murder conviction can send a better signal

to a younger person

[msanthrope]

7. You know, the type that commits this type of murder really doesn't pick up on

signals very well. It's possible that the passage of time made a murder conviction impossible. It also might have been easier to secure a Southern jury verdict.

I don't know enough of the facts. But it looks like the judge did the right thing at sentencing.

[gopiscrap]

8. I understand that, but if there wasn't does obstructing factors,

I'd go for murder one

[longship]

3. Great flick, "Mississippi Burning"

Willem Defoe, Gene Hackman, Brad Dourif, Frances McDormand.

It's a fictionalized, but unforgettable, account of what went on. A great flick.

Mississippi Burning (Wiki)

[SoapBox]

6. The face of evil...

Is that top pic of him from the 60's.

[OldRedneck]

9. Here's a little something that NO ONE TALKS ABOUT.

Remember Ronald Reagan?

Reagan was born and reared in Illinois, attended a small church-related college there, then went to California to seek his fortune.

In 1980, Reagan was the GOP presidential nominee.

After his nomination, he had to make his first speech as the nominee, a speech that would set the tone of his campaign.

Where did Saint Ronnie go to make his first speech as presidential candidate? Did he:

1. Return to him Middle America-God-Mother-Apple Pie roots in Illinois, or,

2. Speak in California to celebrate the Golden Land of Opportunity??

Neither.

Ronald Reagan made his first speech as the Republican Presidential candidate in 1980 in PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI, the scene of the 1964 murder of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman. In the speech, Saint Ronnie declared: "I support states' rights!!" and the crowd went wild!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan%27s_speech_at_the_Neshoba_County_Fair

The GOP was then and is now the party of racism, hatred, and the Klan. Reagan proved it.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Did NOT know this! It really, really sickens me. Unbearable nastiness from the Gipper.

That would have made him a god on the spot among the sub human trash of this country.

You have thrown some real illumination into this thread with this link, bringing completely news information for many of us, I am certain. I notice it does mention almost nothing about it was mentioned by the corporate media. It certainly fits the pattern.

[cosmicone]

11. +1,000,000 n/t

[Blue_Roses]

12. Sad that it took so long for justice to prevail

and there are some who still got away with murder. What a mean, hateful bunch of ugly men.Good riddance.

[alp227]

13. How did this cold hearted thug make it to age 88?

He should've rotted a LONG time ago.