Proportional Justice Quotes
Johnson was sentenced to jail in about 1900 for having a boxing match in Texas where Johnson beat a white boxer. His opponent was jailed with him for the integrated fight. At the same time, Texas was notorious for allowing a man whose wife had committed adultery to the rival man and often the wife as well. The practice gradually was outlawed but many Texas juries refused to convict such a man and murderers often got away unpunished. It was only in the 1970’s that the practice was almost eliminated, but even so, occasionally a murdering husband would be acquitted by a Texas jury acting in the Texas tradition. It is interesting to examine this historical fact in the light of modern “honor killings” of adulterous women in some Muslim societies.
