Wingate agreed to assign Seale to a prison where his health needs can be met. He has cancer, bone spurs and other health problems.
Reputed Klansman sentenced in 1964 Miss. case
From the Associated Press
11:25 AM PDT, August 24, 2007
JACKSON, Miss. — James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced toay to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
Seale, 72, was convicted in June on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, two 19-year-olds who disappeared from Franklin County on May 2, 1964.
The young men's bodies were found more than two months later in a backwater of the Mississippi River.
Seale showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate read his sentence.
Wingate told Seale the crimes committed 43 years ago were "horrific" and "justice itself is ageless." Wingate denied a defense motion to allow Seale to be free on bond while his case is appealed.
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