Mary Turner's Assassination

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Latamarin Locklin, recalled the aftermath of the shooting.
“When he ran in I just screamed,” she said. “His jaw was just hanging off and it was just a big hole in his face. I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel.” Locklin couldn’t understand why this sick individual shot the kid. “for no reason .”

“ I don’t care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.” Mary Turner was a thirty-three-year-old black woman, hung in Lowndes County, Georgia. Eight months pregnant, Turner and her unborn child were murdered after she mad an public announcement of the law killing of her husband for no reason, Hazel Turner, by a mob.
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As the owner of the old Joyce Place, Smith resolved the labor; he paid Sidney Johnson $30 fine because he had been convicted of playing dice and was forced to work on his plantation. Johnson got many beatings from Smith. Days before smith’s killing Johnson had got beaten by smith for refusing to work while because he was sick. Smith also had a history with Hayes and Mary Turner. one incident, Hayes was sentence to the chain gang when he threatened Smith for beating his wife,

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