2 Replies to “Huh?”

1. Tiger Lily says:

   April 13, 2002 at 8:06 pm

   This charge bears no relation whatsoever to the common understanding of “lynching” from which it was derived. Any decent attorney will be able to reduce it to wreckless endangerment, or something of that ilk.

   What I find telling is that the “second degree lynching” charge originates in South Carolina–an attempt to acknowledge the racist sins of the past, no doubt. No harm in that–in and of itself. But casting such a wide net, does nobody any real good in the end: not the student who was greivously injured, not those who beat him (under the guise of “initiation”) and not the state legislature who seeks to provide the District Attorneys legal recourse.

2. Andrea Harris says:

   April 13, 2002 at 10:59 pm

   From what the article says, this sounds more like “hazing” than anything. In an “initiation rite” – which implies that a certain amount of voluntary behavior on the part of the victim. Did he know he had heart problems (if prior heart problems are the reason for his heart attack). If so, it wouldn’t be the first time some teenage kid got into something physically dangerous in order to prove he wasn’t a weakling, despite his “handicap.”

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