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."
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Will end up in hell where he shall rot! Good riddance!
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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.
Such lovely words. I'm all choked up... 
Don't 
Please don't! 
If there is a hell..I hope this hateful POS is screaming in eternal pain
for this one.
