Former KKK leader gets 60 years

ONE-TIME Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison yesterday for masterminding the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers.

Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon, sitting in Philadelphia, Mississippi, sentenced Killen to 20-year terms on each of three counts of manslaughter. The terms will run consecutively.

Killen, 80, was convicted on Tuesday, 41 years after Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were killed.