3 Life Terms Handed Down in '64 Killings

[Ghost in the Machine]

3 Life Terms Handed Down in '64 Killings
Published: 8/25/07, 3:45 AM EDT
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale showed no emotion Friday as he was sentenced to three life terms in prison for his role in the segregation-era abduction and killing of two black teenagers.

Seale, 72, was convicted June 14 on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, two 19-year-olds who disappeared May 2, 1964. Seale and other Klansman beat them, then dumped them into the Mississippi River still alive, according to testimony.

The young men's decomposing bodies, mostly just skeletal remains, were found more than two months later in a river backwater. No one was ever convicted in the case - until now.

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate told Seale the crimes for which he was convicted were "horrific" and "unspeakable." Though the crimes occurred 43 years ago, "justice itself is ageless," Wingate said.

The judge denied a defense request to allow Seale go free on bond while his case is appealed; federal public defender Kathy Nester filed a notice of appeal.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Shame he won't live long enough

to suffer all three which I assume to be consecutive.

"The judge denied a defense request to allow Seale go free on bond while his case is appealed" - I should think so too <expletives deleted>.

[shenmue]

2. Thank goodness

That sick bastard knows that people haven't forgotten and he didn't get away with it. :grr: