Hanging a noose now a crime

Symbol can't hang from someone else's property or on private property 05:28 PM CDT on Thursday, July 3, 2008 Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. -- Governor Bobby Jindal has signed a bill making it a crime to try to intimidate people by using a hangman's noose, long a symbol of racial lynchings in the Old South. Jindal signed the bil by Represenative Rickey Hardy of Lafayette on Thursday. The bill makes it a crime for a person to place a hangman's noose, or an image of one, on another person's property or on public property with "the intent to intimidate." Conviction could bring fines up to $5,000 and up to a year in... [read full story]