Former Klansmen freed on bond in Miss.

[wicket]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/01/12/former_klansmen_freed_on_bond_in_miss/

The reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged with the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers was freed Wednesday on $250,000 bail.

Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon set a March 28 trial date for Edgar Ray Killen, arrested in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era.

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The 79-year-old part-time preacher was arrested last week, the first person to be charged with murder by the state of Mississippi in the killings that focused national attention on the civil rights struggle in the South.

James Chaney, a 21-year-old black Mississippian, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, were ambushed, beaten and shot. They were helping blacks register to vote during the Freedom Summer of 1964.

[Just Me]

1. That just,...truly makes me want to puke.

"Justice" is so,...man-made,...and messed up!!!

[Jacobin]

2. What do they plan? Put his casket in a jail cell?

The sentiments for re-trying this monster are fine, but I wonder what the practical effect of all this will be.

[ET Awful]

3. Other than insuring that the DA and prosecution team involved

will be guaranteed 100% of the black vote from now until the day they die?

If they do get a conviction, odds are the judge will be lenient due to the time that's transpired.

[FredScuttle]

4. Justice

The Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman families have been awfully patient.

[NYC]

6. Goodman's mother

has waited for this.

[txaslftist]

5. Wall Sheeet. It were jest a triple murder...

Buncha leftists, anyway. Y'all are actin' like he done sumpin serious lak burnin a flag!

[jayctravis]

7. Trial date is set.

This is how it's supposed to work. 79 year-old man isn't going to try anything and shouldn't be a danger to the public. What's he going to do, send up the Klan batsignal?

In his situation, I cannot figure if he will feel safer in or out of prison.