Jesse Washington (17 year old A young farm hand with a mental disability was accused of raping and murdering a 54 year old woman some 6 miles away. Despite being illiterate he signed a confession and was found guilty in a trial that lasted less than an hour. He was immediately seized and was shot, hung, and burned to death in front a crowd of 15,000 in Waco, TX. Afterwards, hundreds who fought for a front row, clamored for souvenirs of his charred bodily remainsJesse Washington (17 year old A young farm hand with a mental disability was accused of raping and murdering a 54 year old woman some 6 miles away. Despite being illiterate he signed a confession and was found guilty in a trial that lasted less than an hour. He was immediately seized and was shot, hung, and burned to death in front a crowd of 15,000 in Waco, TX. Afterwards, hundreds who fought for a front row, clamored for souvenirs of his charred bodily remains
Jesse Washington (17 year old A young farm hand with a mental disability was accused of raping and murdering a 54 year old woman some 6 miles away. Despite being illiterate he signed a confession and was found guilty in a trial that lasted less than an hour. He was immediately seized and was shot, hung, and burned to death in front a crowd of 15,000 in Waco, TX. Afterwards, hundreds who fought for a front row, clamored for souvenirs of his charred bodily remains