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Intimidation by noose outlawed in Louisiana

                   
wafb.com
03-Jul-2008
        
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - 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 bill 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]                    

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Signed bill makes hanging a noose illegal

 wwltv.com 04-Jul-2008
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Hanging a noose now a crime

 wwltv.com 03-Jul-2008
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