Comments on: Plea Closes 1965 Case of Slain Civil Rights Worker

By: santai

santai — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:37:13 +0000

Hi, Great articles

By: Sheldon L. McCormick

Sheldon L. McCormick — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:56:38 +0000

Correction: Sims, who along with fellow Klansman Cecil Meyers, got 10 years in prison in 1966 for violating the federal civil rights in the 1964 drive-by shotgun slaying of Lt. Col, Lemuel Penn, was himself killed by a friend’s shotgun blast in 1981.

By: corrine

corrine — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:17:40 +0000

You are so right, Sheldon McCormack. My mother always told me that “if it don’t get you in the washing, it will surely get you in the rinsing. That have not failed yet.

By: Sheldon L. McCormick

Sheldon L. McCormick — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:16:27 +0000

While some civil rights era murder cases and crimes were resolved by a court of law, justice struck the racist perpetrators with other fates. Howard Sims, one of two murderers of Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn was himself shotgunned to death by a friend of his June 1,1881. Harry T. Moore and his wife, dynamited to death in 1951, got justice when their four killers later suffered from devastaing illnesses. One was so tormented by guilt and fear of being caught then tossed in prison he committed suicide. Ex-Neshoba County Deputy Cecil Price died from a broken skull in May, 2001 after a fall. His former boss, Sheriff Lawrence Rainey suffered and perished from tongue and throat cancer, a terrible ailment Nov. 8, 2002 at age 79. The eight white men who kidnapped, beat and lynched 22-year-old truck driver Mack Parker in 1959 died of advanced age and the sickness that came with it. Some were punished in other ways, in private. Private hell. Justice may come in many forms, but it strikes hard. With and without a judge’s gavel.

By: Paen

Paen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:02:47 +0000

Like the little guy who stopped the tanks at Tienamin square the real heros in this world are those who stand up to violence and injustice without harming others.Furthermore the world is a much better place because of them