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Print Associated Press Marylands governor on Saturday posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the state dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process against the allegations they faced. It was a first-of-its-kind pardon by a governor of a U.S. state. Gov. Larry Hogan signed the order at an event honoring Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885 before his attorneys coul...

Reply Gov. Larry Hogan on Saturday issued a full posthumous pardon for 34 Maryland victims of racial lynching between 1854 and 1933, and said the fundamental rights of the slain were violated. The announcement came at a Towson event in honor of Howard Cooper. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) TOWSON, MD — Full posthumous pardons for 34 Maryland victims of racial lynching between 1854 and 1933, were issued Saturday by Gov. Larry Hogan. The announcement came at a Towson event in honor of Howard ...