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...plotted the murders, they still could not directly charge them with the slayings. Murder is a state offense, except on federal property, and the Mississippians were therefore beyond the jurisdictional reach of the Federal Government so far as murder was concerned. So 19 of the 21 arrested???including Rainey and Price?were charged under a section of an 1870 law that was passed, ironically, to control Klan terrorism nearly a century ago. Titled "Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens," it reads: "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment...
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