In 1964, two all-white, all-male juries in Mississippi failed to convict the killer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The culprit, a notorious white supremacist and Klansman named Byron De La Beckwith, managed to escape justice for the following three decades. During this period, he made an attempt on the life of another civil rights leader while openly bragging about his involvement in Evers' assassination. It wasn't until a journalist unearthed evidence in the late 1980s showing that Mississippi had financially supported Beckwith's defense with public funds and that the jury selection process had been manipulated by the defense team. These findings prompted the reopening of the murder case, leading to Beckwith's eventual conviction by a jury in 1994.
@KeneAkers I’ll just leave this here….
@DACJazz @KeneAkers I hope "every night" in state prison they are reminded of #AhmaudArbery. Don't drop the soap...👈