Look at these photos of the Klan trial and share your thoughts.

[Maddy McCall]

According to trial witnesses and the AP, the Mississippi Attorney General's case was lackluster, and he may allow the jury to consider manslaughter instead of murder. Please send good vibes and prayers that this jury is not distracted by Killen's age and occupation (he's a preacher) and finds him guilty on the evidence presented against him.

Here's a photo walk-through of the trial. I'll withold my comments for a moment. Some photos have captions below, to describe exactly what the hell is going on in the photo above.


Well, I have to comment on this one. God bless that black policeman, wasting his body's energy to lift that racist fucking Klansman onto the sidewalk.


Edgar Ray Killen is wheeled out of the Neshoba County Courthouse in Philadelphia, Miss., to a waiting ambulance after suffering shortness of breath and high blood pressure. Killen is on trial for the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
(AP Photo)



Edgar Ray Killen (seated), his attorneys, James McIntyre (left) and Mitch Moran (second right) and Killen's stepson, Jerry Edwards (right) discuss defense strategy at Killen's trial in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Killen is accused in the 1964 slayings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in a case that came to be known as "Mississippi Burning."



Joseph M. Hatcher, a former Meridian police officer and member of the Ku Klux Klan, shows what the KKK's hats look by gesturing while giving testimony in the Edgar Ray Killen murder case in Philadelphia, Miss., on Friday.
(AP Photo)


This June 1964 FBI photograph, supplied by the Mississippi attorney general, was presented into evidence, Friday in Philadelphia, Miss., during the trial of Edgar Ray Killen. It shows the scene where the burned station wagon carrying James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner was found shortly after their disappearance. The car was discovered at the Bogue Chitto swamp some 13 miles northeast of Philadelphia.





(Great live blog from the trial, by a Mississippi DUer: www.neshoblog.com . Slideshow of more trial photos available at http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-killen-gal,0,4764927.photogallery?coll=nyc-moreny-headlines . )

[AndyTiedye]

1. Looks Like a Guilty Man who KNOWS He's Gonna Walk

How many KKK'ers have actually been convicted in Mississippi?

[Maddy McCall]

3. In the past ten or so years, eight or ten.

Some of them were Killen's associates. Also, Sam Bowers was convicted of murder in the Vernon Dahmer case. Google it.

All Klansmen who have been brought to trial for civil rights era murders have been convicted, except for one who had been indicted but died before his trial began. (His name was something like Nobles.)

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Too bad he doesn't have leprosy instead of high blood pressure.

Is that a bit over the top? Frankly I don't care.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Not over the top my friend

He is evil and hateful and part of the republican party's base. Maybe God kept him alive this long so the trial could be held. If there is a God, he will burn in hell forever.

[BOSSHOG]

4. A klansmen and a christian conservative preacher, isn't that

kind of redundant what with the Southern Poverty Law Center declaring last week that many christian right organizations are extremist hate groups. I have no idea what the verdict will be but if there is a God in heaven he will burn in hell for eternity. I'm sure he's a hero to the constitution haters at FR.

[alphafemale]

6. Anyone have a pic showing what he looked like...then?

A mean ass, strong vicious man?

Also pics of the young men whose lives he snuffed and buried in the dirt.

[Wapsie B]

9. Here's what he looked like back in the day.

May Lucifer find a warm spot in the fiery recesses of hell for this one.

[stlsaxman]

7. OMFG! That bastard is the dancing guy on the Six Flags commercials-

right?!?!?

ooops, sorry- my bad....

may he burn in hell after he rots to death in jail.

[obxhead]

8. looks like life is a pain in the a*

for him now.
1. a bullet in the mellon would probably be a relief to him.
2. I doubt that anyone will be able to extend a difficult enough punishment for him to go through for the crimes he "may" have committed.

[LastKnight]

10. he must stand trial.

and given what i know about this case, i would say he is guilty. and old preacher or not. if he is guilty, he must be sentenced accordingly. although im sure no sentence could really scares this guy.... since ive heard he is in poor health anyway. and will most likley die due to poor health before a verdict is even in.

he should be given no special treatment... he is just as eligable for life imprisonment or death penalty as anyone else whos on trial for murder.

let him spend the remainder of his life in prison, make it look like you at least attempt to deliver justice.

[Maddy McCall]

11. We'll see a verdict early next week.

I don't think his health is as bad as he exhibits. He was still logging trees in March, when he had his accident.

[dr.zoidberg]

12. You need to protest.

See here's how you do it. Get a KKK suit. Die it pink. Then carry a sign that says "This is what happens when you mix colors and whites." Bonus points if you reveal that under the hood that you are black.

[Blue Diadem]

13. Too bad it took so long to bring him to trial,

he's lived his life, while his victims never had the chance.

[JohnKleeb]

14. Its nice that hes finally being brought to justice after all these years

[uppityperson]

15. More, more, more trees