An aging member of the Democrat Party's terrorist wing has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers during the height of the civil rights movement.

Calling the crime “unspeakable because only monsters could inflict this,” a federal judge on Friday sentenced a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi.

The case was one of several that focused a spotlight on white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.

The victims, Henry H. Dee and Charles E. Moore, both 19, were hitchhiking in Meadville, Miss., when a group of Klansmen, including James Seale, picked them up and took them to a wooded area, where they were beaten and their weighted bodies thrown into the Mississippi River. Both young men drowned.

Their bodies were not recovered until later that year in a high-profile search for three civil rights activists whose deaths generated widespread revulsion against the racial violence in Mississippi.

“The pulse of this community still throbs with sorrow,” Judge Henry T. Wingate of Federal District Court said as he imposed the sentence, which will effectively keep Mr. Seale, who is 72 and has cancer, behind bars for the rest of his life.

Personally, I'd like to see this decrepit terrorist hung by the neck until dead, but I'm sure he will meet his maker sometime soon. And I'm sure he will be joining al-Zarqawi and the jihadis in the same warm environment -- and that he won't be getting 72 virgins, either. After all, the Klan and al-Qaeda may have different ideologies, but they are reflective of the same fundamental evil that lurks in the hearts of some individuals and leads them to harm their fellow human beings.

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