CNN Breaking News: Klansman found guilty 41 years later.

[iamlachesis]

"PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (CNN) -- Forty-one years to the day three civil rights workers were ambushed and killed by a Ku Klux Klan mob, a jury found former Klansman Edgar Ray Killen guilty of all three counts of manslaughter Tuesday."



Go here for the full story as it develops.

Comments

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

Justice? *snarls*

He participates in cutting these guys down in the prime of their lives. His consequence is that he gets to live a life of freedom and in his senescence he gets put away.

[lachesis.livejournal.com]

I agree with your sentiment, but in the article it said that Goodman's mother said "I just hope he's off the streets," she said of Killen. "I don't want anything more terrible than that. I don't want anything violent. I'm against capital punishment."
Had the trial in 1967 resulted in a guilty verdict (11-1 for conviction), Mrs. Goodman wouldnt have had to wait this long.
I'm just glad she doesn't have to wait any longer.

[brontosproximo.livejournal.com]

The meek do inherit the earth, but they tend to inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.

— Robert A. Heinlein

[lachesis.livejournal.com]

A bit of a stretch, but -
"no good deed goes unpunished".

or somethng like that.

[termofart.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. That's the best thing I've seen all day!

Nasty ole' boys.