Ex-Klansman given three life sentences

JAMES FORD SEALE, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced yesterday to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.

Sat, 25 Aug, 2007 - 01:00
Emily Wagster Pettus, Jackson, Mississippi

Seale, 72, was convicted in June on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, two 19-year-olds who disappeared from Franklin County on May 2, 1964.

Seale showed no emotion as US District Judge Henry T Wingate read his sentence.

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