“He was beaten, stabbed, and kicked, before he was tied to the back of a truck and driven to the place he would be hanged,” according to a state history archive. Now, 88 years later, Mr. Armwood has been formally pardoned — along with 33 other Black men and boys who were lynched in Maryland between 1854 and 1933. “My hope is that this action will at least in some way help to right these horrific wrongs,” Gov. After Howard was convicted by an all-white jury, his lawyers intended to appeal his case to the United States Supreme Court, according to the state archive. Instead, a lynch mob broke into the jail, dragged him from his cell and hanged him from a tree.

Source: New York Times May 13, 2021 10:30 UTC