Maryland Governor pardons 34 victims of racial lynching
The Hindu
The ceremony is part of a continuing effort by the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project that is working to document the history of lynching in the State.
Maryland's Governor on Saturday posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the State dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process against the allegations they faced. It was a first-of-its-kind pardon by a governor of a U.S. state. Gov. Larry Hogan signed the order at an event honoring Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885 before his attorneys could file an appeal of a rape conviction that an all-white jury reached within minutes.More Related News