Too late, but still good.
Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina.
Officials believe the men are the first in the state to be posthumously pardoned in a capital murder case.
Black landowners Thomas and Meeks Griffin were executed 94 years ago after a jury convicted them of killing 73-year-old John Lewis, a wealthy white veteran living in Blackstock, a Chester County town 40 miles north of Columbia. Two other black men were also put to death for the crime.
‘This won’t bring them back, but this will bring closure. I hope now that they rest in peace,’ Joyner said. ‘This is a good day.’”
It’s good that their family can have some peace now.
What an intense story. Glad to see a little good came out of all the bad.
An amazing confluence of technology, and social progress. The Wheel of Karma rolls slowly, but inexorably.
I’m waiting for the wingnuts to leave their usual stupid.