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Because Mississippi officials refused to prosecute the killers for murder, a state crime, the federal government, led by prosecutor John Doar, charged 18 individuals under 18 U.S.C. §242 and §371 with conspiring to deprive the three activists of their civil rights (by murder). They indicted Sheriff Rainey, Deputy Sheriff Price and 16 other men.
David Neal Cox Sr. (November 30, 1970 – November 17, 2021) was an American convicted murderer who killed his wife, Kim Cox, by shooting her. Cox was arrested hours after the killing and was charged with capital murder, sexual battery, and several other offenses.
At the time of the murders, Price was 26 years old and a deputy sheriff in Neshoba County, Mississippi. He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [2] While he was never charged with the murders, Price was convicted in October 1967 of violating the civil rights of the three victims. [3]
A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the killings of two Mississippi police officers over the weekend, officials said on Wednesday. Abram Wade Franklin, 29, was charged with ...
A Black man convicted of capital murder in the stabbing death of an 84-year-old Mississippi woman walked out of prison a free man after a judge overturned the conviction. Eddie Lee Howard, now 67 ...
In 2004, Barrett organized a booth at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi for the public to shake hands with Edgar Ray Killen and sign a petition of support. Killen, who did not appear at the aforementioned event, was later convicted of manslaughter for his role in the 1964 Ku Klux Klan -led murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner .
Herrington, 24, is charged with capital murder in the 2022 disappearance of Lee. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty but Herrington, who is free on bond, could still face life in prison ...
On January 13, 2019, George Robinson, a 62-year-old Black man, died two days after a violent arrest by three Black police officers in Jackson, Mississippi.According to a grand jury indictment, the officers pulled Robinson out of a car, threw him headfirst into the pavement, and struck and kicked him multiple times in the head and chest.