The Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst racially motivated mass murders in American history, began May 31, 1921.
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Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
He had been tried in absentia and convicted in dozens of murders, including helping to mastermind a pair of 1992 bombings that killed top anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
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