Prosecutors have asked an Alabama court to confine a former Ku Klux Klansman to a state mental hospital to determine if he is competent for trial in a church bombing that killed four black girls.

Prosecutors asked an Alabama court yesterday to confine a former Ku Klux Klansman to a state mental hospital to determine if he is competent for trial in a church bombing that killed four black girls.

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