Criminal Justice – Legal Lynching

In this episode, the hosts discuss the country’s legacy of racial terror as embodied in lynchings of Blacks by white supremacist groups such as the KKK; how these efforts were designed to maintain racial apartheid by force and intimidation; and how they are related to the use of the criminal justice system and capital punishment statutes in efforts to legally lynch the Scottsboro Boys and the Groveland Boys.

Equal Justice Initiative – Lynching in America – https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lynching-in-america-3d-ed-080219.pdf

Groveland Boys (PBS – Free) – https://www.pbs.org/video/the-groveland-four-uid8r2/

Scottsboro Boys ($) – https://www.amazon.com/Trials-Scottsboro-Boys/dp/B07F26V4XC/ref=sr_1_3?crid=39WLGM6EXMUQE&dchild=1&keywords=scottsboro+boys+an+american+tragedy&qid=1586636092&sprefix=scottsobo%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-3 

Lafourche Country (where Judge Ellis grew up) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafourche_Parish,_Louisiana