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Preston "John" Porter, Jr., was a sixteen year-old Black man who was lynched for allegedly murdering a twelve year-old Louisa Frost in Limon, Colorado. Porter was arrested and taken to Denver for holding a few days after Frost's murder in November 1900. On November 16, 1900, unnamed people in Denver went to the jail and demanded the sheriff, SO AND SO Freeman, take Porter to Limon for punishment. Porter was taken by train back to Limon, where he was burned alive on the spot where Frost's body was found. The case attracted national attention and reignited a debate about the death penalty in Colorado.