The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act will be the first bill to define lynching as a hate crime. The bill is named for Emmett Till, a Black teenager who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955.
on Tuesday afternoon. The bill will be the first to specify lynching as a hate crime.
Biden and vice president Kamala Harris are scheduled to deliver remarks at 4 p.m. ET after the bill’s singing. A 2020 version of the bill set the maximum sentence for lynching at 10 years. The bill Biden will sign Tuesday comes with 30 years in prison and fines for anyone conspiring to commit an act of lynching that causes death or injury.to the bill which allows the prosecution of crimes as lynchings if they are done during a hate crime in which the victim is injured or slain.introduced this version of the bill in January 2021.
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