(Klansman) Edgar Ray Killen Taken From Prison to Jackson Hospital

By By Holbrook Mohr
Asspcoated Press Writer


Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman convicted last year in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, has been moved from his prison cell to a Jackson hospital, officials and family said Wednesday.

His brother, Jerry Killen, told The Associated Press that Edgar Ray Killen, 81, had been hospitalized for complications from a severe leg injury he sustained in a logging accident in 2005.

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Barbara Austin, a University of Mississippi Medical Center spokeswoman, said Killen was in the hospital and in fair condition as of Tuesday night. She would not elaborate on what was wrong with him.

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Killen was indicted by a Neshoba County grand jury in 2005 and was accused of orchestrating the killings (of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney). He was convicted exactly 41 years later on June 21, 2005.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/NEWS/60329013

The article says that Killen was initially let out on bond after his conviction, but because policemen complained that Killen was out and about, walking and driving around Philadelphia--and therefore not the wheelchair-confined cripple he played during trial and sentencing--the judge revoked his bond and sent him to prison to await his appeal.

I hope this scoundrel dies in prison. He deserves no dignity. He gave none to his victims.

I am usually not a vindictive person but this scum...deserves no sympathy!!!

turning for Emmit Till. :(

The circumstances surrounding the death of Emmett Till provide chilling insight into the racism that dominated the South in the 1950s. Till was a fourteen-year-old Chicago native visiting relatives in Mississippi. While out with his cousins and friends on the night of 24 August 1955, he allegedly accosted a white woman in the grocery store owned by her husband. Accounts vary as to what Till actually said or did. According to the woman Till grabbed her and made lewd remarks. Some witnesses claimed that he only whistled at her. Still others asserted that he made no advances at all, that he whistled habitually to control a speech defect.


Roy Bryant considered his wife's honor tainted by the incident. Several nights after the episode, Bryant, his half brother J. W. Milam, and possibly other accomplices kidnapped Till from his relatives' home in the middle of the night. The two men beat him severely and, apparently enraged that he had a picture of a white woman in his wallet, shot Till and threw him in a nearby river. Several days later the body was found, and Bryant and Milam were charged with murder.

The sheriff of Tallahatchee County, who investigated the case, speculated on the witness stand that an unnamed group of "rabble-rousers" had planted the evidence. The all-male, all-white jury was apparently convinced: they acquitted Bryant and Milam after deliberating slightly longer than an hour.

I have no sympathy for him...none. He has no remorse for what he did.

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If he can pay for it fine, but otherwise Mississippi taxpayers should not have to pay for his health care. Then he should be left to die.

Personally, I believe that when you die, you are shown your life-no ego coloring your motives, just the plain truth. And you meet all those whose lives you have touched who have passed on.

Imagine what this fellow has to face at the moment of his death.

out of the court house, he attempted to physically strike photographers and journalists. (I attended the trial--he showed zero remorse. He actually smirked and smiled during his trial.)

He's a mean ol' bastard and deserves much worse than a prison cell.

Here is Edgar Ray Killen:



And here is Norman Rockwell's painting on the killings titled "Southern Justice":



The shadow cast looks eerily like Killen.

I hope this scoundrel dies in prison. He deserves no dignity. He gave none to his victims.

He should have the movie "Mississippi Burning" pumped into his cell 24/7.

I heard that it made heros of the FBI agents when the facts are the FBI all too often looked the other way during those days.

went home because of his frail heart during the trial. What a crock of shit! The fact that the JUDGE even ALLOWED him to walk free at first shows how far we HAVEN'T come for civil rights and justice. This just pisses me off! And Emmit Till's case will never have justice, the black community should post that picture of him every day somewhere for the world to see how little is done for equality and justice for blacks. It's sickening.

maybe he's all crippled up and maybe he just wants a vacation at the hospital, i hope they keep a sharp eye on this known malingerer