Banda said that he had sold his soul to the Devil and that the Devil had told him to kill six people. Banda's sister testified that on the night of the killing he confessed to stabbing 74-year-old Merle Laird 20 or 30 times and then drinking some blood from her mouth. (11 December 1995)
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Sunday 26th of March 1944 (-) — Black reverend Isaac Simmons is lynched by six white men. The men shot Simmons three times, cut out his tongue and told his son he had ten days to abandon the family property. The killers took possession of the land and an all-white jury later acquitted the only one of the six men to face trial for the murder.