Two life sentences in hate crime JACKSON, Miss., March 22 (UPI) -- The day after pleading guilty to a racially motivated killing, a Mississippi man was back in court Thursday to face federal hate crime charges. Deryl Dedmon, 19, admitted in Hinds County Court Wednesday he killed James Anderson in a hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in June 2011 in Jackson, Miss., because Anderson was black. Circuit Judge Jeff Weill Sr. sentenced Dedmon to two life sentences, for murder and for the hate crime. "All the hard work we have done to move our state forward from that earthen dam in Neshoba County to here has been stained by you," Weill told Dedmon at the sentencing, a reference to the nearby killings of three civil rights workers in 1964. Dedmon apologized to Anderson's family at the sentencing. He returned to court Thursday with two accomplices, John Rice and Dylan Butler, as the three face federal charges of conspiracy and violation of the federal hate crime statute. Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith told The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger Dedmon's case was the state's first successful conviction involving an enhanced penalty for a hate crime.