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Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death and Lynched |
Year Convicted: |
1906 |
Year
Cleared:
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2000 |
Location
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Tennessee |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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Wrongly convicted in February 1906 of raping a white woman in Chattanoga, Tennessee. Sentenced to death, Johnson appealed his conviction to the United States Supreme Court on the basis he had not been accorded due process of law. The Sup Ct accepted Johnson's case for review and issued a stay. The county sheriff and judge did nothing to diffuse local outrage at what was viewed as meddling by the Sup Ct. A large mob seized Johnson from the county jail on March 19, 1906, and lynched him. On February 25, 2000, Johnson's conviction was posthumously set aside and his death sentence was vacated. |
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Information Source 1: |
Contempt of Court - The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that launched a hundred years of federalism, Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips, Jr., Anchor Books (NY), 1999 |
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