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On Saturday, the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard from experts about the lynchings of five Black men in Anne Arundel County.

Police, prosecutors, judges, jailers and local media played a part in aiding mobs who lynched five Black men in Anne Arundel County, historians told a state panel convening in Annapolis on Saturday.

Police, prosecutors, judges, jailers and local media played a part in aiding mobs who lynched five Black men in Anne Arundel County, historians told a state panel convening in Annapolis on Saturday.

May 9, 2021 Governor Larry Hogan issued a full posthumous pardon for 34 victims of racial lynching in Maryland between 1854 and 1933, on the basis that these extrajudicial killings violated fundamental rights to due process and equal protection of law. It is the first time in history that a governor has issued a blanket pardon for the victims of racial lynchings. “The State of Maryland has long been on the forefront of civil rights, dating back to Justice Thurgood Marshall’s legal battle to integrate schools and throughout our national reckoning on race,” said Governor Hogan. “Today, ...

Print Associated Press Maryland's 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 could file an appeal of a rape conviction that an all-white jury reached within minutes. “My hope is ...