“The law is named for Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955. The bill makes it possible to prosecute as a lynching any conspiracy to commit a hate crime that results in death or serious bodily injury.”
I’m ecstatic to see justice, though long overdue, finally done at the Federal level. Although all 50 states have laws that outlaw lynching, yesterday’s historic legislation finally bans it everywhere.
Original source can be found here.
