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Neshoba County Circuit Judge Marcus D. Gordon refused to release Edgar Ray Killen from prison while the former Ku Klux Klan leader appeals his conviction in the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers. Killen, 81, was convicted of manslaughter in June 2005 in the slayings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. He was sentenced to 60 years.

In the novel Huck Finn, the KKK was not known as a bad thing. It was not frowned upon to be a memeber. Now it is very bad, and KKK leader Marcus D. Gordon's appeal was revoked for the killing of three civil rights workers.