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LATEST NEWS:
Former Klansman convicted in 1964 murders moved to hospital
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.
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Judge orders Edgar Ray Killen back to prison
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Prosecutor: Relative threatened to kill judge
A relative of Edgar Ray Killen, the 80-year-old former KKK leader convicted of masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, threatened to kill the judge prior to Killen's June 2005 trial, according to legal documents filed by the state Attorney General.
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Trial highlights
Bond granted to Klansman convicted in civil rights killings case
A judge granted Edgar Ray Killen a $600,000 bond on so the one-time Klansman can be released from prison while he appeals his manslaughter convictions in the killings of three civil rights workers.
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Judge denies request for new trial
Klansman, 80, gets 60 years in prison
Edgar Ray Killen, the 80-year-old preacher convicted of manslaughter for the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers, was handed the maximum sentence — three terms of 20 years behind bars to be served consecutively.
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Klansman convicted of manslaughter in 1964 killings
On the 41st anniversary of the fatal shootings of three civil rights workers, a jury in Neshoba County, Miss., found a former Klansman guilty of three counts of manslaughter.
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June 20, 2005: Jurors report 6-6 split
June 20, 2005: Closing arguments
June 18, 2005: Witness alleges prosecutor tied to Klan
June 17, 2005: Convict: Preacher confessed involvement
June 16, 2005: Defendant rushed to hospital as testimony starts
June 15, 2005: Opening statements
June 14, 2005: Picking jury is a small-town affair
June 13, 2005: Defendant greets white supremacists as trial opens
Case background: Mississippi set to retry suspected Klansman
RELATED CASE:
Birmingham Church Bombing
 Almost 40 years after an Alabama church was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four black girls inside, Bobby Frank Cherry was tried and convicted of murder. Shortly after the 1963 incident, J. Edgar Hoover said the chances of prosecution in the white-dominated South were "remote." But the case against Cherry was reopened in 1997 and authorities gathered enough evidence to win a conviction. Cherry was sentenced to four life terms in 2002, but died of throat cancer in prison two
years later.
Special report: Full coverage from Crime Library
Nov. 18, 2004: Cherry dies in prison
May 1, 2001: Blanton convicted, sentenced to life
May 1, 2001: Deliberations begin
April 10, 2001: Judge upholds charges
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Forty-one years after the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., Baptist preacher Edgar Ray Killen, 80, stands trial for murder but is convicted of manslaughter.
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Indictment
In Jan. 2004, a grand jury indicted Killen on three counts of murder — one count for each of the three slain men.
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