May 22, 1942: As the prosecutor finished his closing arguments in the trial of Mazo Shepherd, accused of killing a taxi driver, the victim’s nephew walked up to Shepherd and shot him in the head.
Shepherd was taken from the courtroom and died a short time later, but not before the jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty.
And that’s how they do things in Harlan, Ky.
ladailymirror.com 
What happened to the nephew??
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sounds like a plot line from Justified
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Manzo was my grandmothers brother there is alot more than what was actually told in the newspapers
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Joe Christian was my grandmother’s brother, and he was murdered for $20! The murderers took away my father’s uncle Joe, who was like a father to him and his siblings.
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I am from Harlan and I knew some of the people named.
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