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KILLEN v. STATE

No. 2005-KA-01393-SCT.

958 So.2d 172 (2007)

Edgar Ray KILLEN v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy Stanfield, Jr., Jackson, Glen W. Hall, attorneys for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Jim Hood, John R. Henry, attorneys for appellee.

Before COBB, P.J., DICKINSON and RANDOLPH, JJ.

DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. During the night of June 21, 1964, several members of the Neshoba County and Lauderdale County chapters of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (the "Klan") kidnaped and killed Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, and buried their bodies in an earthen dam in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi. Although the State of Mississippi prosecuted no one during that period of time for the deaths, the federal government...

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