A reputed white supremacist showed no emotion as he was sentenced to three life terms in prison for his role in the abduction and killing of two black teenagers 43 years ago.

A former Ku Klux Klansman was today jailed for three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in south-west Mississippi.

More than 300 potential jurors have been summoned for the US trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused of abducting, beating and dumping two young black men into the Mississippi River 43 years ago.

More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the US civil rights era – the “Freedom Summer” killings of three young civil rights workers - a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested on murder charges in the case.

A former Ku Klux Klansman has been convicted of murder for the 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls.