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The feature film Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) tells the story of the murder and 1994 trial. James Woods's performance as De La Beckwith was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2001, Bobby DeLaughter published his memoir of the case and 1994 trial, Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Trial. [19]
De La Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994 and sentenced to life in prison, after having lived as a free man for much of the three decades following the killing. He had been imprisoned from 1977 to 1980 for conspiring to murder A. I. Botnick .
He was assigned to the Evers case, which he began investigating in 1989. His strong commitment to the case contributed to the break-up of his marriage. DeLaughter is best known for leading the state's successful prosecution of Byron De La Beckwith for the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1994, more than 30 years after the crime.
The new edition of "Portrait of a Racist" includes an afterword that recounts Reed Massengill’s participation in Byron De La Beckwith's third trial.
Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on February 5, 1994
Evers investigated lynchings, beatings and other violence that Black residents suffered at the hands of white segregationists. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The post 60 years after Medgar Evers’ murder ...
Convicted murderer and former goldsmith shop worker Died in a solitary confinement cell at Changi Prison's death row section. Found guilty in 1992 of kidnapping and murdering his former employer, and sentenced to hang. His accomplice Ibrahim Masod, also on death row, was put to death 11 months later on 29 July 1994 Joe "Pegleg" Morgan: 1993-11-08
During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for autopsy, and found to be in a surprisingly good state of preservation as a result of embalming. Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for the three decades following the killing.