The Leo Frank case involved the arrest, trial, and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager, in 1913. Frank was accused of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker. The trial, held in Georgia, was marred by anti-Semitism and media sensationalism. Despite weak evidence, Frank was convicted and sentenced to death. His case was appealed multiple times, but the conviction was upheld. However, Georgia's governor commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment due to doubts about Frank's guilt. A mob of angry citizens, predominantly influenced by a virulent anti-Semitic campaign, abducted Frank from prison and lynched him in 1915. The Leo Frank case became a landmark example of the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism and the failure of the American justice system to protect the rights of minorities.
