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August 18, 2017

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