Edgar Ray Killen dies

Mississippi’s corrections department says Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ slayings of three Civil Rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92.
The part-time preacher and lumber mill operater was 80 when a Neshoba County jury convicted him in 2005 of three counts of manslaughter.
He was sentenced to 60 years in prison. His conviction came 41 years to the day after Freedom Summer workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were ambushed and killed by Klansmen.
Their bodies were found buried in a red clay dam in rural Neshoba County.