The Job
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The Importance of Capital Punishment in the South
In 1955, Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when a white woman accused him of whistling at her and making sexual advances. A few nights later, the woman's husband and his half-brother kidnapped, tortured, and shot 14-year-oldEmma Till. They tied a 75-pound industrial fan around his neck and through his body into a river. Both men were acquitted by an all-white jury.
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