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When did lynching become a federal crime in the US?

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When did lynching become a federal crime in the US?

On March 29, 2022, President Biden signed a bill making lynching a federal crime for the first time in the United States. The law is named for Emmett Till, the Black boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955. The anti-lynching movement first introduced legislation to criminalize lynching in 1935, but it was repeatedly blocked more than 200 times. The bill, which makes lynching punishable by up to 30 years in prison, finally passed the House in Feb. 2022 with only three lawmakers opposing it and passed the Senate without objection on March 28.

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