On December 23, 1911, a 26-year-old black man named Frank Richardson was accused of murdering two white men in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was executed in a brutal lynching at the county jail, with many people present.

　　On December 23, 1911, Frank Richardson, a 26-year-old black man, was accused of murdering two white men in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and became the victim of a cruel punishment, being killed by lynching without due legal process. He was arrested and hanged in Alabama. Richardson was born in 1884 in Northport, Tuscaloosa, and worked as a farmer. He was married to Charlotte Richardson for six years, and they both lived in Club Road, Northport, Tuscaloosa.

　The first execution in Tuscaloosa County in eight years was carried out, and the black man Richardson was hanged for murder. He was hanged and pronounced dead by a doctor 17 minutes later. The execution took place at the county jail and was witnessed by many people. Between 1877 and 1950, there were 4,400 lynchings of black people in 800 counties in the United States, and in most cases the perpetrators were not prosecuted.

　　In Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, a few weeks earlier, a white man had been shot dead after a fight broke out when a black man refused to lend his saddle to a white man. The black man who had killed the white man fled into the woods armed with a Winchester rifle. A police force was organized and hounds were deployed to track down the fugitive. Shots were exchanged and the leader of the posse, Brown Horton, was fatally wounded. Later, the black man Richardson was captured. The first person to be killed was a former deputy sheriff named Tom Cooper. After Richardson was captured, he was extradited to Birmingham to prevent a lynching. After Richardson was arraigned, he was tried and convicted solely for the murder of Horton. The public was very excited about the double murder.

 At the trial, the public was against Richardson, but the witnesses testified that Richardson was a quiet person until he had a dispute with Cooper. A young law firm was appointed by the court to represent Richardson. The jury returned a verdict of first-degree murder, and Richardson's execution date was set for Friday, December 22. Richardson, a black man on death row, received a lot of sympathy. His good nature before he went out of control and the circumstances of his first murder were also strongly appealed for a reduction in sentence to life imprisonment.