After 43 years, justice is served!!

A jury on Thursday convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi, grisly drownings that went unpunished before federal prosecutors re-examined the forgotten case.

Seale, 71, faces life in prison in the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. The 19-year-olds disappeared from Franklin County on May 2, 1964, and their bodies were found later in the Mississippi River.

Edwards testified that he and Seale belonged to the same Klan chapter, or "klavern," that was led by Seale's father. Seale has denied he belonged to the Klan.

Edwards testified that Dee and Moore were stuffed, alive, into the trunk of Seale's Volkswagen and driven to a farm. They were later tied up and driven across the Mississippi River into Louisiana, Edwards said, and Seale told him that Dee and Moore were attached to heavy weights and dumped alive into the river.

The killings of Moore and Dee are among several decades-old civil rights cases reopened by federal investigators. In February, federal officials announced they were reopening investigations into about a dozen such cases.-CNN

It's sad that it took so long for justice to be served for this appalling and reprehensible act of violence and hate. 43 years ago this poor excuse of a man was 28 years old. He had his freedom and had the opportunity to live a long, fruitful life and now at 71 he's finally being sent to jail for life...in other words judging by his appearance, life in prison will probably be 5 years. It's a shame. And what also remains unsettling is the fact that he was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy but not murder?? Since they held Edwards testimony as truth then the fact that Seale attached the young boys to heavy weights and dumped them in the river should also be held at the same regard.

I'm not too mad though because I recognize that there is a Higher Power and justice in that aspect WILL be served! I'm also grateful that cases simliar to these are being reopened and if the sons of b*tches are still alive to be prosecuted, they will be.