After over a century of trying, lawmakers in the House and Senate finally managed to make lynching a federal hate crime this Monday. AntiLynchingBill
The Associated Press reported that the House had approved a similar bill in 2020, but it was blocked in the Senate. This year the House approved a revised version which the Senate passed unanimously this week.
Between 1865 and 1950 more than 6,500 people were lynched, according to a report from the Equal Justice Initiative. The first attempt at banning lynching came during the post-Reconstruction Era, and was introduced in 1918 byThe legislation has since been introduced over 200 times but never passed. Most recently, it’s been sponsored and championed by Democrat U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush from Chicago.
Rush said that “modern-day lynchings like the murder of Ahmaud Arbery” make it “abundantly clear” that things haven’t changed enough. The anti-lynching bill says that a crime can be prosecuted as a ‘lynching’ when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury, meaning it doesn’t have to specifically be a hanging death. The bill carries a maximum sentence of 30 years.
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