Byron De La Beckwith
Byron De La Beckwith (1921-2001) was an American white supremacist and the assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi.
He was acquitted of the crime by a deadlocked all white jury in 1964, and was retried twice more. Beckwith was finally convicted in 1994, based on new evidence that he had boasted about the killing at a Ku Klux Klan rally. He was given a life sentence for murder and died in prison in 2001 of heart problems, while his case was still being appealed.
See also: List of assassins
Addition by another reader (a lawyer): It is incorrect to say he was "acquitted" by a "deadlocked" jury -- a deadlocked jury is also called a "hung jury" and does NOT result in an acquittal, and the defendant may be legally retried after a hung jury.
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