Original sentence: After the governor commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment, a mob calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan kidnapped Frank from the prison farm at Milledgeville, and lynched him.He was convicted of murder after a flawed trial in Georgia.Sensationalist newspaper accounts stirred up anger about Frank, charged in the murder of Mary Phagan, a girl employed by his factory.Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissent condemned the intimidation of the jury as failing to provide due process of law.The 1915 murder near Atlanta, Georgia of factory manager Leo Frank, an American Jew, was one of the more notorious lynchings of a Jewish man
Edited sentence: After the exiting governor commuted Frank's sentence to life imprisonment, a mob calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan kidnapped Frank from the prison farm at Milledgeville, and lynched him.He was convicted of murder at trial in Georgia.Inflammatory, editorialized newspaper accounts stirred up anger about Frank, charged in the murder of Mary Phagan, a 13 year old girl employed by his factory.Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissent in the final rejected appeal condemned what the justice perceived to be intimidation of the jury which failed to provide due process of law.The 1915 lynching near Atlanta, Georgia of an accused pedophile and child murderer Leo Frank, an American Jew, was one of the more notorious lynchings of the era