U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Klansmen's Conviction Challenge

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected a challenge to the conviction of a former member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi Friday, according to a U.S. Department of Justice website.

In 2007, a federal jury in Mississippi convicted James Ford Seale and other klansmen of "conspir(ing) to abduct, interrogate, beat and eventually murder Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charlie Eddie Moore" in 1964. Seale was sentenced to three life terms in prison.


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The entire release can be read on the U.S. Department of Justice website (http://www.usdoj.gov/) as well as http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-crt-558.html.