Ex-Klansman receives 60 years for three 1964 killings

Philadelphia, Miss. — A former Klansman has received the maximum sentence of 60 years for his involvement in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in rural Mississippi.
Edgar Ray Killen, 80, was sentenced to 20 years on each count of manslaughter, to be served consecutively, for the fatal shootings of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.
"There were three lives involved in this case and the three lives should be recognized and treated equally," Judge Marcus Gordon said before pronouncing the sentence.

Forty-one years late, but some measure of justice is done.  Still, I think a very slight re-wording of Bob Dylan's Seven Curses is appropriate here.

These be seven curses on one so cruel:
That one doctor will not save him,
That two healers will not heal him,
That three eyes will not see him.

That four ears will not hear him,
That five walls will not hide him,
That six diggers will not bury him
And that seven deaths shall never kill him.

 

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