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lynching

An act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of a person, which results in that person’s death.

The popular definition of lynching is that of an extrajudicial execution by hanging carried out by a mob, which is functioning independently of local police and law enforcement authorities.

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Ramirez commented that he would make "no comment on these notices because many people in this city know Salvador Valdez, and know his character better than I do." In the same edition, on February 8, 1855, Ramirez wrote of two other lynchings, both "Americanos" and observed "Lynch law ...

Linchocracia: performing "America" in El Clamor Publico

The South would employ the lynch law -- the lynching of Negroes to preserve its way of life as much as possible.

The Lynching Massacre of Black and White Soldiers at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, April 12, 1864

On one hand, I read Frances Willard as saying something akin to: "Shut up, or I'll have you bound over to the big court!" More charitably, I read her as a white, well-connected woman willfully misrepresenting Ida and playing a womanly possum vis-a-vis the implicit lynch law agency of white American womanhood.

Yes, Virginia, there is an answer

She admits the strangeness of going abroad when, logically, more good might come of such a campaign in the US, save that "we, as a race, cannot get a hearing in the United States" where both "[t]he press and pulpit" are silent about, and thus complicit in, lynch law (131).

Embodying segregation: Ida B. Wells and the cultural work of travel

progress, not just the index but the glittering proof of national civilization, in this passage Douglass anticipates the irony, and the crisis, entailed for such an endeavor by lynch law's horror.

Archiving hate: lynching postcards at the limit of social circulation

When people begin to believe that organized society is unwilling or unable to impose upon criminal offenders the punishment they "deserve," then there are sown the seeds of anarchy--of self help, vigilante justice, and lynch law.

The Rope and the Law

His devious scheme almost sparked lynch law and broke Angela's heart.

PORN AT PALACE GROOM GETS 3 YEARS JAIL; Judge raps evil plan to destroy love rival

The revolution made it more difficult to correct these faults manifest in crime waves, lynch law, and the Civil War.

Neither Kingdom nor Nation: The Irish Quest for Constitutional Rights, 1698-1800

Wells's Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases (1892) and Frances E.

Dunbar and the science of lynching

For the remainder of his life Tillman fiercely defended the segregated society he had helped shape from all threats, both internal and external, championing lynch law as the ultimate expression of the white man's determination to rule.

Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy

Paramilitaries are most to be feared not when they hate the government but when they are its allies, as when the Ku Klux Klan dominated Democratic politics in the South from the era of lynch law to the early 1960s.