Posted on 08/18/2005 12:42:02 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Jewish congregations gathered in a suburban shopping center Wednesday to remember the lynching of a Jewish businessman on the same spot 90 years ago.
Leo Frank was kidnapped from prison and hanged in 1915 after being convicted of killing a teenage girl at a pencil factory. Frank, a 29-year-old from New York City, had been sentenced to death for the 1913 strangulation of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker whose body was found in the factory's coal bin.
But the evidence against Frank was thin, and the governor commuted the sentence to life in prison.
Two months later, a group of about 30 men kidnapped Frank from prison, drove him 175 miles back to Marietta and hanged him from an oak tree.
He was granted a posthumous pardon in 1986 on the grounds that the state failed to adequately protect him.
Rabbi Steve Lebow with Temple Kol Emeth said the crime is important to remember so that history does not repeat itself.
"It reminds us of the heinous nature of taking the law into our own hands," Lebow said. "It is not just a Jewish issue. It is a human issue."
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Undoubtedly he was lynched by democrats.
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