A "solution" looking for a problem? Actual lynching is so exceedingly rare in the US that the only cases I can think of occurred back in the early 1900s in the South. So it was over 100 years ago, and NOW someone passes a law against it, now that it's no longer a 'thing'? Hmmmm, brilliant and expeditious legislation, bravo!!
Hmmm, you're right, I'd forgotten about that one. Still... rare. And it already fell under state murder laws. So does lynching call for a more PERMANENT form of capital punishment, like really really REALLY dead?
A "solution" looking for a problem? Actual lynching is so exceedingly rare in the US that the only cases I can think of occurred back in the early 1900s in the South. So it was over 100 years ago, and NOW someone passes a law against it, now that it's no longer a 'thing'? Hmmmm, brilliant and expeditious legislation, bravo!!
James Byrd Jr. in Jasper TX - 1998
That's the most recent, and only, lynching I know of in my lifetime that got any notoriety.
Hmmm, you're right, I'd forgotten about that one. Still... rare. And it already fell under state murder laws. So does lynching call for a more PERMANENT form of capital punishment, like really really REALLY dead?