GRAHAM — Jane Sue Walker Swinney, 93, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at The Oaks of Alamance. A native of Alamance County, she
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According to sociologists Stewart Emory Tolnay and EM Beck, who wrote A Festival of Violence , Michael Donald was different from some lynching victims. According to them, he was not accused of committing a crime or thought to have breached racial etiquette. Instead, he was killed because the Klan members were furious that the second trial of Josephus Anderson, a Black man accused of murdering a white policeman, had been declared a mistrial when the jury could not reach a verdict.
Enraged with the verdict, Klan members, Hays and Knowles, chose Donald at random, tracked him down, beat him brutally, then strangled him to death. They showed him off at a house party of Klan elder Bennie Hays’ that night before hanging his body from a tree on the residential Herndon Avenue. Donald was stopped by two White men in a vehicle asking for directions. It was a ruse, once Donald paused to help, one of the men produced a gun and forced Donald into their car. The two men then took him to a seclu
Leo Eugene Mathis: 2011 negligent homicide. After multiple sentencings and revocations, Mathis was sentenced to 15 years in prison with 15 years suspended in 2018. This was revoked on Dec. 8, 2020.
Clay James Kroll: 2012. Burglary. Sentenced to five years in prison with all time suspended. Suspended sentence revoked on Dec. 1, 2020.
Heather Denise Quinn: 2014 criminal possession. Previously sentenced to five years with two years suspended. Now sentenced to two years with two suspended. Revoked on Dec. 3, 2020.
Jonathan Wade Wallace: 2011 criminal mischief. Sentenced to four years, previously a deferred imposition of sentence, revoked on Dec. 9, 2020.
James Jovoinne Koger: 2015 aggravated burglary, partner/family member assault, assault, criminal mischief, destruction of a communication device. Sentenced to five years, all suspended. Revoked on Dec. 9, 2020.