Edgar Ray Killen, the former Ku Klux Klansman responsible for a notorious civil rights era murder, has died in a Mississippi prison. Killen orchestrated the killings of three Freedom Summer workers in ...

Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, has been convicted of manslaughter in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. The jury of nine whites and three blacks reached the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MISSISSIPPI — A Klansman found guilty for ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. -- Ever since the 1960s, the families of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman have desperately longed for the day when someone would be brought to justice in the ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still scarred and rough from decades in the east Mississippi sawmills. He has a muscular ...

The jury of nine whites and three blacks took less than six hours to clear Edgar Ray Killen of murder but convict him of the lesser charges in the 1964 killings that galvanized the struggle for ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 15 -- The man folks around here call Preacher Killen, a wheelchair-bound 80-year-old with a Ku Klux Klan past, was wheeled into a red brick courthouse here on Wednesday to ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 23 -- -- Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was wheeled before a judge Thursday, an 80-year-old relic of Mississippi's hate-filled past, and sentenced to 60 years in ...

"Because the guilt of Edgar Ray Killen is so clear, there is only one question left," prosecutor Mark Duncan said in closing arguments. "Is a Neshoba County jury going to tell the rest of the world ...

On the 41st anniversary of the murders of three young civil rights workers, a jury on Tuesday convicted an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader of manslaughter, closing another chapter in the ...