Leo Frank
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Leo Max Frank was an American lynching victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial,
Frank, c. 1910–1915
Mary Phagan
One of the two murder notes found near the body
Jim Conley as shown in the August 1915 issue of Watson's Magazine
Lynching
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Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate othe
Leo Frank
…Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American lynching victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintendent. Frank's…
The lynching of African American William "Froggie" James in Cairo, Illinois, on November 11, 1909. A crowd of thousands watched the lynching.
Postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. The bodies of two of the accused men are still hanging while the body of the third accused man is lying on the ground.
September Massacres of 1792, in which Parisian mobs killed hundreds of royalist prisoners