Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He died in prison on January 11, 2018, six days before his 93rd birthday.
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Male
Date of Birth
January 17th, 1925
Age
101
Birth Place
United States of America, Mississippi
Date of Death
January 11st, 2018
Died Aged
92
Star Sign
Capricorn
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