http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/tag_rss/lynching/html <p>First published by <a href="http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2007/12/07/Opinion/Todays.Legal.Lynchings-3138848.shtml">The Daily Texan</a></p><p>The next time you travel to downtown Houston to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, you should walk a few blocks to Houston's Old Hanging Tree at the corner of Capital and Bagby streets. That huge 200-year-old oak tree is the location where many &quot;Negroes&quot; were illegally lynched many years ago. Almost 150 years after the Civil War ended, Texas remains haunted by its long history of slavery, and even today the state still practices lynching. But today it is done by the state, rather than a group of white-hooded men. It is called execution by lethal injection. <br /> <br /><em><br /></em></p> http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post/persiancowboy/CHrb http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post/persiancowboy/CHrb/commentary#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:57:02 EST http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post/persiancowboy/CHrb persiancowboy http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/profile_picture/97d675c975720a6458_ndemv2o4e.jpg persiancowboy University of Texas at Austin 0 http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrb/