Did the hangman receive a medal?
"If You Don't See Color, You're Blind To Racism"
“In 1917, at an Army training camp in Houston where members of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment were stationed, a series of run-ins with white police and a false rumor that Black soldiers were about to be attacked set off a race riot. One-hundred-and-ten soldiers, all Black, were convicted; 19 were sentenced to death and hanged. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with families of the executed men, and with Army officials about its decision, more than a century later, to reverse all convictions and restore honor to the Black soldiers who suffered a miscarriage of justice.” attr: CBS News (full story including video in link)
U.S. Army corrects miscarriage of justice in Jim Crow-era Texas
Though the time and the circumstances were different, I immediately thought of the Dakota war of 1862, described in Scott Berg's 2012 book 38 NOOSES and elsewhere. Thirty-eight of the Dakota were hanged, which, true, was far less than the more than 300 sentenced to death (President Lincoln intervened). But as in this case, the context and the history were totally ignored.
This leads on in history is one of unspeakable cruelty and dishonor. If the United States military intends to pay penance for every time people were denied their humanity, treated inhumanely, and murdered in acts of racism then it will take adding staff to complete the project. Thank you my friend for you post and link.