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KKK Members Who Worked as Prison Guards Convicted of Plotting to Kill Black Prisoner

HeadlineAug 18, 2017

In news from Florida, two members of the Ku Klux Klan who worked as prison guards have been convicted of plotting to kill an African-American prisoner after his release. Earlier this week, a jury in Columbia County, Florida, found David Elliot Moran and Charles Thomas Newcomb guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. A third Klansman, who also worked as a prison guard, pleaded guilty earlier this year.

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