Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
Three young white Mississippi men are heading to federal prison after being convicted of what one person called violence as evil as the worst of pre-civil rights days.
James Craig Anderson, 20, was killed by a group of men who has been targeting blacks they believed were homeless or drunk. Anderson was in a parking lot of a hotel in Jackson, Mississippi when he was deliberately run over by a man driving a Ford truck. The murder was caught on surveillance video.
The driver of the truck, Deryl Paul Dedmon, will spend 50 years in prison after being convicted of the hate crime. He will serve that sentence concurrent with whatever a Mississippi state judge issues as punishment for Dedmon’s guilty plea to capital murder and a hate crime.
The family of the victim decried the evil of the “strangers with eyes full of hatred.” Barbara Anderson Young, sister of the victim, told the killers, “My God have mercy on your sinful souls.”
Dedmon’s associates also are heading to prison. John Aaron Rice was sentenced to 18 ½ years, and Dylan Wade Butler to seven years.
Seven others are still awaiting sentencing for their role in targeting blacks and homeless people for physical assault and abuse.
