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Article: White Supremacist Said Grateful for NAACP Assistance
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- The New York Beacon
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- May 3, 1995
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Kelly P. Kissel
New York Beacon, The
05-03-1995
White Supremacist Said Grateful For NAACP Assistance.
White supremacist Richard Wayne Snell, put to death for killing a Jewish pawn shop owner, didn't turn aside assistance in his final weeks from the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund.
"He was very grateful for the assistance," said Jeff Rosenzweig, a Jewish Little Rock attorney. "Obviously, he had some political views that were different, but the point is that a number of issues in Snell's case are issues that recur in a number of cases that the NAACP is interested in, like prosecutorial misconduct."
Snell, 64, was also convicted of killing a black Arkansas state trooper. He lost late appeals to ...