Edgar Ray Killen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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former Ku Klux Klan organizer convicted of three counts of manslaughter
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1925
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 11-Jan-2018
Profession: pastor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Edgar Ray Killen
- Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.
- He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
- He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
- He died in prison on January 11, 2018, six days before his 93rd birthday.
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