• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They left out the part where Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted her initial accusations that Till assaulted her—which catalyzed Till’s murder—were lies. Still think they should have sent her cancer-ridden, geriatric ass to prison before she died.

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      1 year ago

      I think we should have taken everything from her except the clothes on her back and left her to live her days on the street.

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      1 year ago

      There was no initial accusation from her. She lied at the trial, and that’s what she admitted to.

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        1 year ago

        Seems you’re correct that she admitted to lying at the trial, but the reporting and facts about what actually happened are so conflicting and mired in obscurity and time that it’s impossible to say what really happened. Not sure if her telling her husband about it really was the impetus for the crime, but she claimed so at trial. Regardless, she deserved prison.

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          1 year ago

          I mean, 99% of the mentions on reddit say the same thrng. I saw one thread one time where someone clarified it.

          I’m not sure what my opinion of a 70 year old perjury is. If someone else set off her husband then she might’ve just been trapped in a really bad and abusive place. The jury was shit. The judge was shit. Nothing that child said or did can justify a murder four days later.