It may have taken forty years but Mississippi is following through and holding a man accountable, murder is murder, which is why there is no statute of limitations on murder... I had to contact my parents to get the details they remember on this case. There was a mini-series many years ago, before "Mississippi Burning" and my parents made we watch it so I would learn the evil of racism my parents grew up in Mississippi and I make this point because cyber space is full of condemning comments of all "old" Mississippi residents. Although there were racist as today, many despised what the KKK stood for and generalizations are an insult to my parents and those like them! Edgar Ray Kilens mistrial should tell the tale of Mississippi residents the 1967 mistrial was 11 guilty to 1 not-guilty; 1 person out of 12 but although I am happy it is ashamed it took nearly 40 years to bring the case back to trial, but better then never.
I hope Sheriff Myers is able to following through on his statement "We've got several more to arrest..." I was living in Tennessee at the time Mississippi extradited Byran de la Beckwith for killing Medgar Evers and that was a good moment for American justice.
Billy Wayne Posey, one of the men convicted on federal civil rights charges, stated after 40 years to come back and do something like this is ridiculous....like a nightmare NIGHTMARE, what about the NIGHTMARE those three young men endured.... You sir got of light and I would hope all involved could be retired under state murder charges, although I am not a lawyer and do not understand all the double jeopardy implications.
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