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re: South Carolina electrocuted a 14 yr old in 1944.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:17 am to JordonfortheJ
Posted on 12/18/14 at 2:17 am to JordonfortheJ
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Sam Hose
Although most lynchings were simple executions in which the victim was hanged or shot to death, some were accompanied by spectacle and grotesque torture. Arguably one of the best-known of the latter was the torture murder of Sam Hose (a.k.a. Sam Holt) near Newnan in Coweta County on Sunday afternoon, April 23, 1899. Hose was in jail, charged with murdering a white man. An unmasked mob advanced on the jail and took Hose to a site about a mile away. They tied him to a small pine tree, cut off his ears, and mutilated his body with knife cuts. The mob then doused him with oil and set him on fire; his body convulsed, and his veins burst. The Atlanta Constitution estimated that 2,000 people witnessed this torture killing, many of whom traveled from Atlanta on two special trains after hearing of Hose's capture and eminent lynching. From the cooling ashes spectators took pieces of bone and bits of flesh, along with remnants of the pine sapling, as souvenirs. For those who could not attend, the Constitution devoted the first two pages of Monday's newspaper to describing the grisly details.
Sam Hose
Although most lynchings were simple executions in which the victim was hanged or shot to death, some were accompanied by spectacle and grotesque torture. Arguably one of the best-known of the latter was the torture murder of Sam Hose (a.k.a. Sam Holt) near Newnan in Coweta County on Sunday afternoon, April 23, 1899. Hose was in jail, charged with murdering a white man. An unmasked mob advanced on the jail and took Hose to a site about a mile away. They tied him to a small pine tree, cut off his ears, and mutilated his body with knife cuts. The mob then doused him with oil and set him on fire; his body convulsed, and his veins burst. The Atlanta Constitution estimated that 2,000 people witnessed this torture killing, many of whom traveled from Atlanta on two special trains after hearing of Hose's capture and eminent lynching. From the cooling ashes spectators took pieces of bone and bits of flesh, along with remnants of the pine sapling, as souvenirs. For those who could not attend, the Constitution devoted the first two pages of Monday's newspaper to describing the grisly details.
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Posted on 12/18/14 at 6:37 am to ctiger69
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I'm sure this kid was eating skilttles minding his own business. When he saw the girls he put his hands up and said don't shoot. They wrongfully took him in and gave an unjust sentence. Because this is the believe that people want you to believe in order to keep racism going. Never mind the actually truth lets just go with this every time. Race of people is the deciding factor of innocence/guilt not facts.
This is pathetic. A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY was executed a after a one day trial with the all white jury deliberating for one hour and he was denied appeal and electrocuted 3 months after the girls were killed.
That is justice? You are defending that?
The comments in this post are obscene. And pathetic.
That confession should not have been admissible. Who knows how they secured it? They could have promised to let him go if he just confessed to it, then turned on him.
Horrible.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 6:39 am to baybeefeetz
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Posted by baybeefeetz Not as fricked up if the dead guy was a budding serial killer. Jmo
Yeah, let's make sure that we execute people before we know if they are a serial killer. Perfect. Wait, what? This is insane.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 6:45 am to AlaTiger
I read a little further than the OP. Three LEO's said he confessed. The kid said he never confessed.
One of his sisters and an independent witness place the kid elsewhere during the murders.
An elderly man from a locally prominent family confessed to the murders on his deathbed.
One of his sisters and an independent witness place the kid elsewhere during the murders.
An elderly man from a locally prominent family confessed to the murders on his deathbed.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:03 am to baybeefeetz
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I wonder if I would confess to a double murder I didn't commit at age 14 short of being tortured.
Rural South Carolina, 1944, black kid with a family in town.
It would seem pretty easy to coerce a confession out of the kid. Think of the things that could have been done to his family.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:05 am to Hangit
Not that I'm defending anything in the story, but would like to point out 14 years old back then is probably more like being 24 today. Considering how much younger everyone went to work and got married back then, I think if you just look at the age that may be skewing things a bit
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:14 am to CtotheVrzrbck
Riots
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:14 am to CtotheVrzrbck
Not a loss by any means...need to do that more often.
This post was edited on 12/18/14 at 7:15 am
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:19 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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We've got to find some middle ground.
Not happening when half the country calls that the "good ole days'
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:25 am to Hangit
There is a lot to not be proud of in American history.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:29 am to lsupride87
Which generation passed the civil rights act in 1964? Keep laughing and being stupid, though.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 7:38 am to Jake88
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Which generation passed the civil rights act in 1964?
Congressmen not in the South passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:00 am to LordSaintly
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Now THIS is the kind of story people should have rioted over.
Rioting over something that occurred 70 years ago makes as much sense as rioting over Ferguson.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:04 am to SG_Geaux
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My grandfather used to talk about how, in the Brusly/Addis area, if a black man spoke to a white woman in an inappropriate manner, they would tie him to a car bumper and drag him out of town.
I'm sure your grandfather was great man to you and your family and those that knew him, but I'm glad TPOS like him and the demonic people that thought like him aren't around anymore.
This country is a better place without gutless people like that.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:05 am to GetCocky11
He was speaking of the Greatest Generation in general, not just the South.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:08 am to member12
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That's fricked up.
It's a true example of how screwed up society was in some ways. I don't think younger people can really grasp legitimate racism as it existed 70 years ago.
To put things into perspective, we now have people screaming "racism" over white men moving their laptop bag. That seems even more insane after reading the OP.
Fair point, but just because places are integrated now, and society as wholly progressed and racism is less tangible, it doesn't make diminish other people's perceived grievances.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:10 am to StrongSafety
Good. They got him before he could breed.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:11 am to CtotheVrzrbck
True injustice...too bad acts like this and all the work MLK strived for is shite on by the people of today.
Pretty sad if you ask me.
Pretty sad if you ask me.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:40 am to Brettesaurus Rex
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14 years old back then is probably more like being 24 today. Considering how much younger everyone went to work and got married
Because working and getting married somehow makes one more emotionally and intellectually astute. ok.
Posted on 12/18/14 at 8:48 am to Hangit
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Three LEO's said he confessed. The kid said he never confessed.
One of his sisters and an independent witness place the kid elsewhere during the murders.
An elderly man from a locally prominent family confessed to the murders on his deathbed.
Needs to be repeated.
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