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 ...

(Reuters) - Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and Ku Klux Klansman convicted and sent to prison more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the "Mississippi ...

Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial Monday, charged with orchestrating the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. It would be the second time Killen, 80, faces a jury on charges related ...

Mississippi's attorney general asks the state's supreme court to revoke Edgar Ray Killen's bond after learning that Killen's brother threatened to kill the judge before the trial began. A Mississippi ...

A former Klansman who was sentenced in 2005 to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1964 plot to abduct and kill three young civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer drive to register black ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Edgar Ray Killen is a Defendant with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Judicial Proceeding. Most appearances with Marcus D. Gordon (4), ...

Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman who was sentenced to a 60-year prison term in 2005 for arranging the murders of three young civil rights workers outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 during ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter today in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers — exactly 41 years after they disappeared. The jury ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — 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, ...

Edgar Ray Killen called himself a Baptist minister, but he worshipped in the church of the Ku Klux Klan. So when Killen, a native of Philadelphia, Miss., became his local Klan’s Kleagle (a top ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state judge who presided over the “Mississippi Burning” trial in 2005 has died. Retired Mississippi Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon died Thursday at St. Dominic Hospital in ...