(Washington Composite) US President Biden signed the first federal anti -criminal law in the history of the United States on Tuesday, and was first listed as a hate crime in federal law.
At the signing ceremony held in the White House, racial hatred is a long -term problem existing in the United States, and the criminal sentence is "the unique racial horror weapon in the United States". However, there have been no federal law for many years.
The US Vice President Harris pointed out that the criminal sentence is a stain in the history of the United States, and it is still occurring to this day, and it must be held accountable.
The bill signed on the same day was called Emmett Till Antilynching Act.Under this federal law, those who were accused of using privatally faced a maximum 30 -year imprisonment.
The criminal law was named after two white men who died after being cruelly suspended by two white men in Mississippi in 1955.The victim subsequently was confessed by the jury composed of white people, causing public anger and demonstration.
In the Congress, it has not passed more than 200 times
The supporter of the bill, Bobby Rush, a member of the Democratic Party of Illinois, said, "Private legislation has proposed more than 200 times in Congress, but has never passed as a law. This successful legislation has correctly corrected the historic unfairness of the United States to a certain extent.
In the United States, hate crimes refer to criminal acts driven by a certain group, discrimination or prejudice, and many victims come from ethnic groups.Studies of the University of Taskiggi, Alabama, in the United States, from 1882 to 1968, at least 4,743 in the United States were suspended, of which 3,446 were African -American.
