PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) - One-time Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was removed from court on a stretcher Thursday on the opening day of testimony in his trial for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.
Killen, 80, was taken to a hospital to be treated for high blood pressure, said District Attorney Mark Duncan, who said he had no other details. Killen was sitting up on the stretcher as he was loaded into the ambulance.
The grand jury refused to indict anyone other than Killen, the prosecution had sought indictments of all eight living members of a group of 18 men who were tried for conspiracy to violate the rights of the three men in 1967.
Killen was tried once on federal conspiracy charges than ended when one juror would not convict him.
Forty years have passed and even the District Attorney admits "a lot of witnesses have passed, a lot of evidence has been lost, people's memories have faded."
If he's found not guilty it will still not give the families of the three men killed justice, if he is found guilty given the rest of those still living were never convicted they still don't have justice. Does it really help to try to do this type of decades later justice?
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2 comments:
I know that it may seem silly to charge a man, who is in his eighties, that got lucky on the first trial. But the attempt to convict him must be made for justice. Maybe he will be convicted this time. If there is enough evidence against him, he should be tried. At the very least, people will remember what kind of monster he is, even if he is aquitted again.
That's true, guess my primary concern is what another aquittal would create versus a conviction. It is very hard to try cases after that many years, and to have it be a fair trial for either side, witnesses are dead, evidence missing...
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