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Christopher Bucktin

White woman who triggered lynching of black child won't be charged 77 years on

A white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till will not face trial, an American grand jury has ruled.

Jurors in Leflore County in the Mississippi Delta, where the 14-year-old had travelled from Chicago in the summer of 1955, heard more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses.

The panel had been formed after an unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was found last month, 77 years after the killing.

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