In South Carolina, five white teenagers have pleaded guilty to lynching a black teenager. The youths, ages 17 and 18 years old, entered the pleas shortly before their trial was set to begin Tuesday. They were given sentences raging from 2 1/2 to six years in state prison. Their victim, 17-year — old Isaiah Clyburn, said through his lawyer that he forgave them. The five teens attacked Clyburn as he walked along a rural road in Cherokee County, South Carolina on July 7. According to prosecutors, the teens shouted racial slurs at Clyburn and beat him repeatedly as he tried to escape.