A FEMA spokesman took his gag off long enough Thursday to deny the agency, bruised and battered by public opinion after a staggering display of ineptitude following Hurricane Katrina, has a zipped-lip policy of not commenting or appearing at public meetings where the media might be present.
A pub called the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report apparently did not get the memo.
Convicted murderer Edgar Ray Killen will be back in a Neshoba County Courtroom today, a little more than a year after he was sent to prison for the 1964 death of three civil rights workers in a long-delayed trial that garnered national attention. He’s trying to get a judge to release him, claiming failing health. It’s a pitch he used successfully to free himself from jail during the trial and one that was ultimately revealed as a hoax.
Retired Neshoba Democrat editor Stanley Dearman says freeing Killen now would undo the long-sought justice that was finally carried out by a local jury last year.
Papers are weighing in, too. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal editorialized Thursday that Judge Marcus Gordon should keep Killen jailed. Clarion-Ledger columnist Eric Stringfellow says the convicted killer should die in prison. And this treatise by Gary Pettus.
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