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In reply to the discussion: A Hanging in Mississippi this afternoon - posted with heavy heart and worry [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)60. Indeed
Yes, there were 4 deaths caused in 2012 (the most recent year for which I found a full morbidity report for Mississippi from their vital stats department) of nonwhites by hanging or strangulation. The report does not classify these by race of the assailant(s).
Lynching is generally a group activity, and one about which people will talk. As a tactic to terrorize a population, talking about it, and making it clear that it WAS a lynching, is integral. A "secret lynching" does not send that message to the targeted group.
The report is sketchy on how long it may have been since he went missing, versus how long ago he may have been hanged. I do not know how long a body retains sufficient integrity to remain hanging after death.
What the numbers do show, for the most recent year available, is that a nonwhite person who has been hanged, strangled or suffocated is five times more likely to have died from suicide than by having been a homicide victim.
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A Hanging in Mississippi this afternoon - posted with heavy heart and worry [View all]
Mira
Mar 2015
OP
TV News headlines and web reports are uninformative. I am also not in favor of headlines that omit a key timeline.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#48
The FBI as well as the state investigative bureau are on scene.THAT's suggestive, unfortunately. nt
MADem
Mar 2015
#26
a natural one, true, but not the only one. Not the responsible or helpful reaction
uhnope
Mar 2015
#35
Well, Port Gibson is on the Mississippi; population a little over 1500 and pretty poor. Does it
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#168
And since the GOP has clearly, unequivocally, declared war against the rest of America
villager
Mar 2015
#5
I can see how my response would piss people off, and i am of course saying it primarily
NoJusticeNoPeace
Mar 2015
#16
The victim had been missing for a month (edit- 2 weeks?)...body discovered today.....a lot more details are available in ither threads.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#49
Discussion, thoughts, feelings, reactions are what a discussion board is for. I can express
libdem4life
Mar 2015
#128
Recently, here on DU, I read a story of a teacher who hung herself in class.
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2015
#165
Any competent death investigation assumes homicide, until proven otherwise.
ColesCountyDem
Mar 2015
#75
Oh dear. If it's suicide that's horrible, but way worse in my mind if it's a lynching
DesertDiamond
Mar 2015
#96
It does seem very suspicious to me--difficult to believe a suicide-- based on what I've read.
mnhtnbb
Mar 2015
#146
25 years in prison was not enough for the racist bastards, so they hung him. Seeing it
B Calm
Mar 2015
#125
Has it occurred to you that the guilt from his actions might have finally overwhelmed him?
onenote
Mar 2015
#137
Faking an autopsy in a federal investigation would require quite a motivation
jberryhill
Mar 2015
#153
the murdered woman's daughter is 56, a decorated veteran who moved away, far away
onenote
Mar 2015
#212
It's Mississippi, where in history lots of black men have committed suicide at the end of a rope.
B Calm
Mar 2015
#171
Any hanging should be reserved for George Bush, same as he treated Saddam Hussein.
orbitalman
Mar 2015
#230