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Lynching Imbeciles
The case of Hamp Biscoe, an Arkansas farmer driven to mental illness by a fraudulent debt suit, then lynched with his wife and thirteen-year-old son — an example Wells uses to show lynch law's disregard even for the legal principle that the insane cannot be held responsible for their acts.
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