Incarceration
Killen entered the Mississippi Department of Corrections system on June 27, 2005, to serve his sixty year sentence. That same year, after a circuit court judge denied Killen's request for a new trial, he was sent to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in unincorporated Rankin County, Mississippi. He underwent evaluation, and prison officials were deciding whether to keep him at CMCF or to send him to the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) in unincorporated Sunflower County. Killen, Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) #112906, is incarcerated in Unit 31 in Parchman. His tentative release date is April 2, 2033. His location last changed on June 25, 2010.
On February 25, 2010, the Associated Press reported that Killen had filed a lawsuit against the FBI. The suit alleges that one of Killen's lawyers in his 1967 trial, Clayton Lewis, was an FBI informant, and that the FBI had hired "gangster and killer" Gregory Scarpa to coerce witnesses. On February 18, 2011 U.S. Magistrate F. Keith Ball recommended the lawsuit be dismissed.
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