Dark Knight
06-27-2005, 05:16 AM
Edgar Ray Killen has likely seen the last of his freedom after a judge sentenced the 80-year-old former Klansman to 60 years in prison for orchestrating the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
Killen won't be eligible for parole for 20 years — when he's 100. He was sentenced Thursday to the maximum punishment, closing one of the most shocking chapters in the movement to end Southern segregation.
Some people "would say a sentence of 10 years would be a life sentence," Judge Marcus Gordon said in giving him 20 years on each conviction of manslaughter.
Killen sat in his wheelchair in a bright yellow jail uniform and stared straight ahead, stone-faced, as Gordon handed down the sentence. The judge then asked if Killen had any response.
"None, your honor," Killen said.
The Full Article (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050624/ap_on_re_us/civil_rights_killings)
Personally I think they should have gave him the chair
, anyway this is the part I thought you'd guys might like check this out, it's sort of uncanny how the guy looks like that dancing jerk-off from the six flags comercial :D .
http://sixflagskkk.ytmnd.com/ :D
Killen won't be eligible for parole for 20 years — when he's 100. He was sentenced Thursday to the maximum punishment, closing one of the most shocking chapters in the movement to end Southern segregation.
Some people "would say a sentence of 10 years would be a life sentence," Judge Marcus Gordon said in giving him 20 years on each conviction of manslaughter.
Killen sat in his wheelchair in a bright yellow jail uniform and stared straight ahead, stone-faced, as Gordon handed down the sentence. The judge then asked if Killen had any response.
"None, your honor," Killen said.
The Full Article (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050624/ap_on_re_us/civil_rights_killings)
Personally I think they should have gave him the chair
, anyway this is the part I thought you'd guys might like check this out, it's sort of uncanny how the guy looks like that dancing jerk-off from the six flags comercial :D .
http://sixflagskkk.ytmnd.com/ :D