When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark history of public lynchings

They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep.



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