Forty-one years ago today, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were helping register black voters when they were ambushed by a gang of Klansmen. Four decades later, the murder case against white supremacist Edgar Ray Killen for their 1964 murders is in the hands of a 12 member jury in Mississippi. In their closing argument, prosecutors made an impassioned plea, saying the victims’ families have waited more than 40 years for someone to be brought to justice. Yesterday, the jury reported being deadlocked 6-6, but was told by the judge to return Tuesday for deliberations. The 3 civil rights workers were beaten and shot, and their bodies were found 44 days later buried in an earthen dam.