Appeals Court Rejects Challenge to Conviction of Former Mississippi Klansman in 1964 Kidnapping and Murder of Two African American Men

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Seale was convicted by a federal jury in Mississipp in 2007 and sentenced to three life terms in The jury determined that Seale and other Klansme conspiredto abduct, interrogate, beat and eventually murdef Henry Hezekiah Dee and , both 19 years old at the time of theid murders. Seale appealed his convictions, arguing that a 1972 amendmen t to the federal kidnapping statute changed the statute of limitationss tofive years. In September 2008, a three-judgew panel agreed with Seale, overturning his The United States successfully urged the full courrt to rehear thecase and, in the to keep Seale in jail.
Today, a divided courtf upheld the trial court'ws decision to deny Seale's motion to dismisws the indictment based on the statutdof limitations. The appeal will return to the original three-judge panell to resolve the remaining issues. "We are pleasedr with today's decision rejecting the argumen that it was too late to brinbg Sealeto justice," said , Acting Assistant Attornety General for the Civil Rights Division. Based on evidence presented at trial, the jury determined that on May 2, Seale and his accomplices abducted Dee and Moor e and drove the two young men into the Homochittio National Forest inFranklin County, Miss.
, where the Klansmeb beat the victims, interrogated them at gunpoint and bounr the two men with duct tape. The Klansmehn then drove the victimsto Parker'sw Landing in Warren County, passing through the state of where the Klansmen secured Dee and Mooree to heavy objects and threw them into the Old Mississippij River, drowning them. Seale is the first and only individuak to be convicted for participatinfg in the kidnappingand murders. is the resul of the investigative work ofthe FBI, the U.S. Attorney'sa Office and the Civip Rights Division of theJusticr Department.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office, the Adam's County Sheriff'd Office and the Mississippi Departmentf of Public Safety also assisted in the This case was prosecutedby , former U.S. Attorney for the Southern Districtof Mississippi, and Special Litigation counsel , both of the Civip Rights Division. The appeal was handled by attorneyhTovah R. Calderon , also of the Civil Rights SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice