Complex sentence: In Apr 1937, in Duck Hill, Mississippi, two black men, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, were lynched--tortured with a blow torch, shot and set on fire.
Split into simpler sentences: In Apr 1937, in Duck Hill, Mississippi, two black men, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, were lynched. They were tortured with a blow torch, shot, and set on fire.