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Ex-Klansman Gets 60 Years for 1964 Murders

June 23rd, 2005

One-time Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, an event that galvanized the fight for racial equality in the Deep South., according to the AP.

Looks like justice was done in Mississippi.

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