Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
Killen bond hearing delayed a week
A bond hearing for Edgar Ray Killen has been delayed a week.
The hearing was supposed to be Friday, but county officials say it has been reset for 9 a.m. Aug. 12 in Neshoba County Circuit Court.
Killen, an 80-year-old one-time Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted of manslaughter June 21 in the 1964 slayings of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County.
He's serving a 60-year sentence at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, but his attorneys have filed a motion to try to get him released on bond while they appeal the conviction.
Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon, who presided over Killen's trial, will decide on th
e bond request.
Killen was convicted 41 years to the day after the sla
yings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. The part-time preacher is the only person to ever face state charges in the killings that shocked the nation and helped spur passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The trio was investigating the burning of a black church outside Philadelphia. They were stopped for speeding and held for several hours in the Neshoba County jail, then mobbed by Klansmen after their release. They were shot to death, and their bodies were found 44 days later, buried in an earthen dam.
The case was dramatized in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.
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Alright, still waiting.....
T.N.B.
A bond hearing for Edgar Ray Killen has been delayed a week.
The hearing was supposed to be Friday, but county officials say it has been reset for 9 a.m. Aug. 12 in Neshoba County Circuit Court.
Killen, an 80-year-old one-time Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted of manslaughter June 21 in the 1964 slayings of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County.
He's serving a 60-year sentence at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, but his attorneys have filed a motion to try to get him released on bond while they appeal the conviction.
Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon, who presided over Killen's trial, will decide on th
e bond request.
Killen was convicted 41 years to the day after the sla
yings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. The part-time preacher is the only person to ever face state charges in the killings that shocked the nation and helped spur passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The trio was investigating the burning of a black church outside Philadelphia. They were stopped for speeding and held for several hours in the Neshoba County jail, then mobbed by Klansmen after their release. They were shot to death, and their bodies were found 44 days later, buried in an earthen dam.
The case was dramatized in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.
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Alright, still waiting.....
T.N.B.