| "He was supposed to stay there until he died. I guess he fulfilled that," Vernon Dahmer's widow said. "He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did." |
 Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers, who was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing death of a civil rights leader, died Sunday in a state penitentiary, officials said. He was 82. He died of cardio pulmonary arrest, said Mississippi Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth. Bowers was convicted in August of 1998 of ordering the assassination of Vernon Dahmer, a civil rights activist who had fought for black rights during Mississippi's turbulent struggle for racial equality. "He was supposed to stay there until he died. I guess he fulfilled that," Vernon Dahmer's widow, Ellie Dahmer, told The Associated Press on Sunday. "He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did."
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