Edgar Ray Killen

Edgar Ray " Preacher" Killen ( born January 17, 1925), is an American part-time preacher and sawmill operator and former member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

On 21 June 2005, a jury jury of manslaughter in the three civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Earl Chaney found him guilty in 1964. On 23 June, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison three times. The first process 1967, the pure white jury acquitted Killen and found seven co-defendants guilty, but none of them was serving a sentence of more than six years. Regarding Killen a vote of 11-1 was obtained. The juror who had voted for Killen, had testified that she could not condemn a priest.

Edgar Ray Killen was released on medical parole on 12 August 2005 on bail of $ 600,000 from custody. According to the judge, there was no risk of flight and no danger to the public. Less than a month later, Killen was arrested again. He had the court misled with information about their health status, possessed a judge in Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The supposedly confined to a wheelchair Killen had been caught by the police while driving or walking around. In 2007, the punishment by the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi, the Supreme Court of Mississippi, confirmed. He is serving his sentence in state prison Mississippi State Penitentiary.