The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which would make lynching a federal hate crime, is now headed to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law, The New York Times reports. The bill’s passage ends more than a century of futility with previous efforts to explicitly criminalize lynching, a persistent symbol of America’s racial violence. Once the bill, named for the 14-year-old Black child tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, is signed into law, lynching will be a crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison. The bill passed the House in February, with only three legislators opposing. The bill, sponsored by Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL), passed the House in February, with only three legislators opposing.
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