What is Edgar Ray Killen?
{{Infobox criminal | name = Edgar Ray Killen | image_name = Edgar_Ray_Killen_Mugshot.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Booking photo, late 1964 | conviction = [[Manslaughter]] (3 counts) | conviction_status = Deceased | other_names = Preacher | conviction_penalty = 60 years imprisonment | charge = [[Murder]] (3 counts) | nationality = [[Americans|American]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|01|17}} | birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Mississippi]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|01|11|1925|01|17}} | death_place=[[Mississippi State Penitentiary|Parchman, Mississippi]] }} '''Edgar Ray Killen''' (January 17, 1925&nbsp;– January 11, 2018) was an American murderer and [[Ku Klux Klan]] organizer. ==Killings== Killen planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] activists participating in the [[Freedom Summer]] of 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/15957/|title='Mississippi Burning' Case Begins New Chapter, as Prof. Ken Bode Previews Trial - DePauw University|website=Depauw.edu|access-date=January 13, 2018|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116061537/https://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/15957/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://crmvet.org/info/csg.htm|title=Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website -- Neshoba Murders Case — A Chronology|website=Crmvet.org|access-date=January 13, 2018}}</ref> He was found guilty in state court of three counts of [[manslaughter]] on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed against the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the [[Supreme Court of Mississippi]].<ref>Killen v. State, 958 So.2d 172 (Miss. 2007).</ref> ==Lawsuit== On February 25, 2010, the [[Associated Press]] reported that Killen filed a lawsuit against the FBI.<ref name=LAT_lawsuit>{{cite news|url=http://www.yallp