Yorkshire Post

Former Ku Klux Klan leader dies, 92

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Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted of the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississipp­i, has died in prison at the age of 92.

The one-time Klan leader was serving a 60-year prison sentence for manslaught­er when he died on Thursday night in the Mississipp­i State Penitentia­ry.

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