She co-sponsored legislation specifying lynching is a crime under existing federal civil rights statutes. Is that bill even needed,” one asked believing lynching was a thing of the past. “They lynched my baby,” Melissa McKinnies wrote about her son Danye Jones’s death in October in a since-removed Facebook post. She was the presiding officer during Wednesday’s vote making illegal an act that was once prevalent in her home state of Mississippi. The saying “justice delayed is justice denied” will likely be some people’s view given that countless people responsible for lynching were never held accountable.

Source: Washington Post December 20, 2018 17:37 UTC