Edgar Ray Killen
Male, Film actor
1925 –
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Who is Edgar Ray Killen?
Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activists—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner—in 1964.
He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime. He appealed the verdict, but his sentence of three times 20 years in prison was upheld on January 12, 2007, by the Mississippi Supreme Court.
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- Born
- Jan 17, 1925
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Mississippi
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on July 23, 2013
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