Leo Frank was accused of raping and killing a little girl named Mary Phagan in a pencil factory on April 26, 1915. Frank insisted on his innocence all along but was hung from a tree by an angry mob.

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In what has historically been likened to a lynching, from February 2-February 5, 1951, Virginia executed seven black men, the Martinsville Seven, in the largest reported mass execution for rape " the rape of a white woman " a crime for which no white man had ever been executed in that state.

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