BBC News is reporting that a US appeals court has overturned the conviction of a former Ku Klux Klansman jailed last year over the deaths of two black teenagers in Mississippi in 1964. Here is a synopsis of the BBC's report:
Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee were both aged 19 when they were killed.
They were said to have been kidnapped and forced into a vehicle owned by James Ford Seale before being tied up and drowned in the Mississippi river.
Their bodies were found months later during a search for three well-known civil rights activists - Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney - who had disappeared in the area.
Seale, 72, was serving three life terms on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy over the deaths. The court agreed with arguments by Seale's lawyer that a legal time limit for prosecuting the case had lapsed.
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the lower court had failed to recognize a statute of limitations applied to the case.
Seale was first arrested in 1964 but authorities freed him, citing lack of evidence.
The charges were dropped at the time because local police were colluding with the Ku Klux Klan, federal prosecutors have said.
He was rearrested in January 2007 after he was found to be very much alive - despite his relatives' claims that he had died.
The key witness in his trial, confessed Klansman Charles Marcus Edwards, said during the trial that Seale attached heavy weights to the teenagers and dumped them alive into the river.
JUSTICE FOR CHARLES EDDIE MOORE and HENRY HEZEKIAH DEE!!!
(Image: That Murdering *#@^# Seale)
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