Reverend E. R. Stephenson was a minister of the now extinct Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. This article is about the former denomination For individual churches of the same name see Methodist Episcopal Church South (disambiguation The Methodist Ku Klux Klan ( KKK) is the name of several past and present secret domestic terrorist organizations in the United States, generally in the southern states that are He shot and killed Catholic priest James Coyle in 1921 in Alabama, but was acquitted of the murder. This article is about a murdered priest for James Coyle the software programmer see Mystic BBS. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. His main lawyer was Hugo Black. Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27 1886&ndashSeptember 25 1971 was an American politician and jurist.
E. R. Stephenson was incensed when his daughter became a Catholic. A known gun carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan, he could no longer restrain himself when his daughter married a Catholic of Puerto Rican ancestry in a ceremony performed by Father James Coyle. On the evening of August 11, 1921, the crazed preacher shot and killed the priest on the porch of St. Paul's rectory.
During the murder trial the defense admitted Stephenson's guilt, though technically claiming "temporary insanity. " It was not that he had committed the murder, but that he had a right to do so.
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