In this day in age we are used to quick justice. Especially when we see a foreign government overthrown within weeks of a terrorist act.

On this very day, back in 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers. A crime that he committed in 1963. It only took 31 years to bring this man to justice in a south that used to not care about that type of crime.