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Ex-Klansman Gets 3 Life Terms for 1964 Murders

Posted Aug 24, 07 3:45 PM CDT in Politics,  Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – A 72-year-old ex-Klansman drew three life sentences today for his involvement in the 1964 murders of two black teens in Mississippi, the Clarion-Ledger reports. "Justice is ageless," the judge told James Ford Seale, who was found guilty in June of kidnapping and conspiracy in the abduction, beating, and drowning of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.

Charles Moore's brother Thomas had pushed for the case to be reopened for nearly a decade. "I did everything I could to bring justice," he said in court today. Seale maintains his innocence and says he'll appeal. Meanwhile, another 100 civil-rights era cold cases await investigation and possible prosecution, a Justice Department official said today.

Source Clarion-Ledger

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A Madison County Sheriff's Department deputy, right, escorts reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale to the federal courthouse, Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, in Jackson, Miss., for sentencing in the deadly...   (Associated Press)
James Ford Seale is escorted by a marshal to a waiting prison van at the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., seen in this Jan. 29, 2007, file photo. A federal judge on Thursday, April 5, 2007, denied...   (Associated Press)
Reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale, wearing a bullet resistant vest, is helped out of a department van by a Madison County Sheriff's Department deputy at the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss.,...   (Associated Press)
Reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale leaves the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Monday, June 4, 2007, following the first day of testimony in his kidnapping and conspiracy trial. Seale, 71,...   (Associated Press)
Flanked by attorneys, lawmen and family members of the deceased, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, foreground, discusses factors that led to the successful prosecution and sentencing of reputed Ku Klux Klansman...   (Associated Press)
Thelma Collins, left foreground, expresses her gratitude to U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, right foreground, for the successful prosecution and sentencing of reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale to...   (Associated Press)
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