On Wednesday, the six ex-law enforcement officials from Mississippi who perpetrated a racist attack by torturing and abusing two Black men were sentenced to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges. Former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28; along with former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, 32, had previously pleaded to state charges in August.