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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4711984" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p><h3><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3178" target="_blank">Justice for Victims of Lynching Act</a></h3><p>Lynching is considered one of the most gruesome ways to kill somebody, primarily associated with racially-motivating killings by white people against Black people in the antebellum and Jim Crow-era South.</p><p></p><p>Even though the last documented lynching in America <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2018/04/last_lynching_in_america_shock.html" target="_blank">occurred in 1981</a> — or perhaps because of it — the act was never officially made a federal crime. Introduced in June 2018, Sen. Harris’s Justice for Victims of Lynching Act would have done just that.</p><p></p><p>The bill attracted 39 cosponsors — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3178/details" target="_blank">28 Democrats, nine Republicans, and two independents</a> — and passed the Senate in mid-December 2018 on a voice vote, a procedure used for relatively noncontroversial legislation without significant opposition. However, the bill never received a House vote, possibly due to there being less than two weeks in the session of Congress.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4711984, member: 66082"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3178']Justice for Victims of Lynching Act[/URL][/HEADING] Lynching is considered one of the most gruesome ways to kill somebody, primarily associated with racially-motivating killings by white people against Black people in the antebellum and Jim Crow-era South. Even though the last documented lynching in America [URL='https://www.al.com/news/2018/04/last_lynching_in_america_shock.html']occurred in 1981[/URL] — or perhaps because of it — the act was never officially made a federal crime. Introduced in June 2018, Sen. Harris’s Justice for Victims of Lynching Act would have done just that. The bill attracted 39 cosponsors — [URL='https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3178/details']28 Democrats, nine Republicans, and two independents[/URL] — and passed the Senate in mid-December 2018 on a voice vote, a procedure used for relatively noncontroversial legislation without significant opposition. However, the bill never received a House vote, possibly due to there being less than two weeks in the session of Congress. [/QUOTE]
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