Reputed Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen responded loudly with “not guilty” three times today as he was arraigned on murder charges in relation to the notorious "Mississippi Burning" case.

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.