Originally Posted by
Barbellian
Had this been passed in the late 1800s or even sometime before 1960, it would have made absolute sense.
But now, with so very many U.S. cities and towns having cameras? With mobile phones which even with location "off" are permanent tracking devices, not to mention video-recording capabilities?
No one with a sane mind thinks lynching is good or moral, but when was the last time a person was lynched in the U.S. in the way that it was done after 1865 and into the first half of the 20th Century?