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[[Image:Leandershaw.jpg|thumb|right|Leander Shaw's body after being lynched]]'''Leander Shaw''' (d. [[July 28]], [[1908]]) was a black man accused of the robbery, rape and murder of a white woman, [[Lillie Shaw]].
After the crime, Shaw was allegedly found rinsing his bloody shirt in [[Pensacola Bay]], arrested and taken to the hospital where Davis, whose throat had been cut, identified him before dying. Headlines from the ''[[Pensacola Journal]]'' announced the "Brutal Assault by Burly Negro Upon White Lady."
A mob was formed shortly thereafter and breached the [[Pensacola Jail]], where Shaw was being held. He After some time, the Sheriff relented and the crowd stormed the jail. Shaw was hanged without a trial in dragged from his cell, through the street, to [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]. He was hanged without a trial from a utility pole in the plaza, and his body was riddled with bullets from the angry crowd.
The crime and hanging are explored in the 2007 documentary ''[[Lillie & Leander: A Legacy of Violence]]'' by Davis's great-great-niece, filmmaker [[Alice Brewton Hurwitz]].
