Jury Reports 6-6 Split in Killen Murder Trial

By Debbie Elliott

Published June 21, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Jurors report they are split 6-6 in the murder trial of former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. The 80-year-old defendant is accused of organizing the killing of three voting rights volunteers in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. It was one of the civil rights era's most notorious crimes.

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