15 Kkk Members Reacting To Life Sentences
The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and contemporary American white supremacists, far-right terrorists, and hate groups. Many individuals belonging to these groups were involved in deadly killings and murders. If you want to see how it all went down, keep watching, because we’re getting started.
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Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klansman who was convicted of a heinous civil rights era murder, died in a Mississippi prison. Killen planned the assassination of three Freedom Summer workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964, a crime that shocked the nation and fueled the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Killen died at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. He was 92 years old and serving a 60-year sentence for the manslaughter of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers in their twenties were ambushed. They'd been lured to the area to investigate a church fire outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, and were arrested as they were leaving.
They were released from jail hours later, chased down by Klansmen, and shot to death. Their bodies were discovered buried in an earthen dam 44 days later. The dramatic search for the missing men drew national attention to the civil rights movement's violent opposition. Killen, a part-time Baptist preacher and KKK organizer was charged with federal crimes in 1967, but his trial ended in a hung jury after a dissenting juror stated that she couldn't convict a preacher. At the time, the state of Mississippi did not press charges. State prosecutors reopened the case, which had been dramatized in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, nearly four decades later. Even though other suspects were still alive, Killen was the only one charged. The jury found Killen guilty of manslaughter, which some victims' families felt was insufficient.
Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, John King
Ames Byrd Jr., 49, was walking home late on a Saturday night in the east Texas town of Jasper when three white men in a pickup truck pulled up beside him. In Jasper, the African American man was well-known and well-liked. When the driver, Shawn Berry, offered to give Byrd a ride, Byrd gladly accepted — after all, he'd known the driver his entire life. What happened next shocked the entire town, nation, and world. John William King was executed at the Huntsville Prison in Huntsville, Texas, for his role in the gruesome and racist murder of James Byrd Jr.
in the summer of 1998. Jasper, with a population of around 8,000 people, is religiously devout and almost evenly divided between black and white residents. The news of Byrd's death spread quickly throughout the black community, with many learning about it after Sunday services. The shock and horror spread throughout the country from those Baptist churches. The murder eventually made international headlines. Shawn Berry, the vehicle's driver, was sentenced to life in prison. Brewer was sentenced to death and executed on September 21, 2011, at Huntsville Prison.