1) Execution 2) Hanging unlawfully 3) Murder 4) Oater justice 5) Slaying 6) The Ox-Bow Incident
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1) Execution
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Lynching is an extra-legal trial and punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group. It is an extreme form of informal group social control such as charivari, Skimmington, riding the rail, and...
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• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lynch
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a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting ... [6 related articles]
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Killing of an alleged offender by an individual or group having no legal authority. In the USA it originated in 1780 with creation of a `committee of vigilance` in Virginia; it is named after a...
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[
n] - putting to death by mob action without due process of law
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noun putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
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Killing of an alleged offender by an individual or group having no legal authority. In the USA it originated in 1780 with creation of a `committee of vigilance` in Virginia; it is named after a member of that committee, Captain William Lynch, to whom is attributed `Lynch's law`. Later examples occurred mostly in the Sout...
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putting a person to death by mob action without due process
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