Sometimes Justice Can Be Very Patient

"A white former sheriff's deputy who was once thought to be dead was arrested on federal charges Wednesday in one of the last major unsolved crimes of the civil rights era -- the 1964 killing of two black men who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River. The...

Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 race case

I grew up in the river city of Natchez, Mississippi. I remember these times, and these crimes and others like them. It has taken 40 years for the wheels of justice to finally turn. Forty years for an...

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