No More Straps

Alabama's newly elected Governor Cordon Persons carried out his campaign pledge to ban the medieval practice of flaying unruly convicts, publicly burned 30 of the state's heavy, 5-ft. leather lashes. Two others were saved as mementos: one for the state's Department of Archives and History, one for the governor's office.

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