The largest mass lynching in U.S. history took place in New Orleans in 1891 and it wasn't African-Americans who were lynched, as many of us might assume. It was Italian-Americans. . After nine Italians were tried and found not guilty of murdering New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy, a mob dragged them from the jail, along with two other Italians being held on unrelated charges, and lynched them all. The lynchings were followed by mass arrests of Italian immigrants throughout New Orleans, and waves of attacks against Italians nationwide. What was the reaction of our country's leaders to these lynchings? Teddy Roosevelt, not yet president, famously said it was "a rather good thing." The response in The New York Times on March 16, 1891 referred to the victims of the lynchings as "... sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins." An editorial the next day argued that: "Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New Orleans. ..." John Parker, who helped organize the lynch mob, later went on to be governor of Louisiana. In 1911, he said of Italians that they were "just a little worse than the Negro, being if anything filthier in [their] habits, lawless, and treacherous."
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Questo è certo, Duiglio, ma c'è anche il fatto che lo stesso protocollo dell'iniezione letale tripla viene usato dai paesi che consentono l'eutanasia assistita. Converrai che lasciare uno a soffocare sveglio per vari minuti non possa essere considerato troppo compassionevole... Forse verrebbe accettato in Cina e Corea del Nord, ma lì obietterebbero che è una perdita di tempo
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