how many murders have the k.k.k carried out and will they ever be punished?

Question

what has happened to the bodies of the victims?

how did the police get away with excusing these murders?

are the kkk still as open with their attacks as they were previously?

Answer 1

Senator Byrd was KKK now hes a senator. Go figure

Answer 2

A number of KKK members who commited murders during the 1950's have recently been convicted of those murders; but it should be remembered that they are in their 70's and 80's now, and many have died.

More recently a group of young racists in Texas were given life-sentences for the racist murder of a black man who they tied to the back of their pick-up truck and dragged him until he was dead.

I suppose it is impossible to say how many murders have been committed by the KKK, as some racist murders may have been carried out by people who were not actually members of the organisation, just sympathisers.

Those bodies that have been found were given whatever funeral service their families requested.

The KKK is basically non-existent today, and operates more as a political body within the Republican Party (a former Grand Wizard, David Duke, who is now at the anti-Holocaust conference in Tehran received the support of the Republican Party to be either a Senator or Governor of Louisiana less than 10 years ago)!

Answer 3

I guess it will be difficult to say: i'm sure murders have been carried out by the KKK (especially in modern times) without them admitting it. Equally, it's difficult to say confidently that an individual was murdered upon the KKK's official orders, not because of personal hatred. For example, one of the KKK Grand Dragons carried out a particularly gruesome murder, on a (white) schoolteacher in 1925. When it was found out, many people deserted the group. But from what i can see her death was not a formally ordered killing, but the actions of a psychopath fulfilling his own sadistic cravings.

One problem with the KKK's attacks were that even if they were taken to trial you cannot force a bigoted jury to find them guilty. Also, if a town's doctor, teacher, mayor, judge and law enforcement officer all belong to the KKK then it's obviously very difficult to bring someone to trial for murder without 'pressure' being put on you to stop. It's important to recognise that the KKK were a very powerful group, often acting in collusion with most of the whites in the community. I would say their attacks are thankfully less common: support for the KKK has dwindled and the police no longer turn a blind eye.

Answer 4

the unique Klan of the 1800's develop into punished in that the state of South Carolina despatched its armed forces after the Klan once the Governor declared conflict on the Klan. Congress then handed a regulation outlawing the KKK in spite of the undeniable fact that the U.S. very best courtroom governed that regulation unconstitutional.

Answer 5

the police usually were the KKK, they operate more stealthy now a days, but they are still around, and how many murders they committed, only god knows.

Answer 6

we will never know the true number of victims as for getting away with it many members of the kkk used to be policeman,judges and the like hence not many convictions me thinks they are still around but no where near as powerfull as they were

Answer 7

Unlikely. They've been getting away with murder for years. Can't
get them when local authorities help and cover up for them. Thats the only way they can exist.

Answer 8

What does Ku Klax Klan mean? How did they start? You don't have to be a wizard under the sheets!

Answer 9

Most likely very few if any.

I do not know how they get/got away with it.

They should not allowed to even be allowed to exist!

Answer 10

Probably just as many as the Brother's !