In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the infamous 1963 killing of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Federal officials could have intervened in many cases but the federal government was reluctant to offend the important base of white voters in the South.After all this time, is it likely that anyone will really be convicted?It's happened already. Ms del Ponte wants General Mladic and Mr Karadzic to be arrested and extradited to The Hague by 11 July, the tenth anniversary of the massacre..
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Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, is expected to announce to the House of Commons on Monday that the Bill to authorise a referendum on the EU constitution will be put on ice. To become law, the constitution needs to be ratified by all 25 nations but Germany, France, and Luxembourg, which holds the EU presidency, have called for the ratification of the treaty to continue.They are both dead, but others may have been involved who may still be alive. This could mean a new trial soon.Why weren't these cases properly investigated and tried at the time?Justice was applied with racial selectivity at a time when membership of the Ku Klux Klan was common and whites dominated every aspect of law enforcement - from the sheriffs and prosecutors to the 12 men and women on juries. Two men were acquitted by an all-white Mississippi jury, but soon after admitted to it in a magazine interview. Over several years, no fewer than 20 cases have been reopened from an era many Americans would much rather forget.What do they hope to achieve by exhuming Till?An autopsy on Till was never conducted and rumours swirled for years that the body may have been of someone else.
Aside from positively identifying him, the FBI hopes DNA techniques may resolve questions about his killers. Another case is being reopened dating from America's civil rights struggles of decades ago. What's going on? Another case is being reopened dating from America's civil rights struggles of decades ago. What's going on? This week the FBI exhumed the body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who became a horrific icon of the civil rights turmoil in the American South after he was kidnapped from the home of relatives in Mississippi in 1955, tortured and murdered The investigation is far from unique.
