I just looked into this story and the accussers could NOT identify the senior Till as the suspect because they were attacked in darkness. None of this justifies vigilante justice.
Ok, this was something I googled, maybe it was a real crime, anyway I see the death penalty as vigilante justice even if the person is guilty. Once someone is incarcerated they are neutralized and are no longer a threat to society.
Senior Till's hanging was not a vigilante act, it was a sentence imposed during a military court martial.
During that court martial, two soldiers who participated in the home invasion, one of whom alleged that Till threatened to kill them if they didn't, testified that Till raped both women and then shot one of them while they begged him not to.
One of the soldiers was given immunity for his testimony. The other one, Fred McMurray, left physical evidence, in the form of an envelope addressed to him, at the scene.
So his accusers, his fellow soldiers, did positively identify him. Of the two victims, one of them couldn't identify him because he killed her. I don't know if the other one could identify him or not, but there was plenty of other evidence.
I just looked into this story and the accussers could NOT identify the senior Till as the suspect because they were attacked in darkness. None of this justifies vigilante justice.
You'll have to show this to those of us who don't believe you.
I do believe you read someone else claiming this, but I don't believe you saw the Italian documents.
Ok, this was something I googled, maybe it was a real crime, anyway I see the death penalty as vigilante justice even if the person is guilty. Once someone is incarcerated they are neutralized and are no longer a threat to society.
Senior Till's hanging was not a vigilante act, it was a sentence imposed during a military court martial.
During that court martial, two soldiers who participated in the home invasion, one of whom alleged that Till threatened to kill them if they didn't, testified that Till raped both women and then shot one of them while they begged him not to.
One of the soldiers was given immunity for his testimony. The other one, Fred McMurray, left physical evidence, in the form of an envelope addressed to him, at the scene.
So his accusers, his fellow soldiers, did positively identify him. Of the two victims, one of them couldn't identify him because he killed her. I don't know if the other one could identify him or not, but there was plenty of other evidence.