Definition of Lynching. Meaning of Lynching. Synonyms of Lynching

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Definition of Lynching

Lynching
Lynch Lynch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lynched; p. pr. & vb. n. Lynching.] [See Note under Lynch law.] To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Meaning of Lynching from wikipedia

- related to Lynchings. Wikiquote has quotations related to Lynching. Look up lynching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Interactive map of lynchings in the...
- of racial lynching, but in the American Southwest, Mexican Americans were also the targets of lynching as well. At the first recorded lynching, in St. Louis...
- A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed...
- This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution...
- American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Some family members...
- to the murder of Mary Turner in its anti-lynching campaigns of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. In the lynching era from 1880 to 1930, the great majority...
- acquitted at trial. It was the largest single m**** lynching in American history. Most of the lynching victims accused in the murder had been rounded up...
- event as a "lynching": Karon, Tony (12 October 2000). "Ramallah lynching leaves peace in pieces". CNN. Retrieved 6 October 2023. A lynching in a dusty...
- for an agricultural terrace Lynch House (disambiguation) Lynching, an extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob Lynches River, North Carolina, United...
- were 135 lynchings in Illinois. Anti-lynching bureaus formed to ****emble political capital to p**** anti-lynching laws. While anti-lynching proponents...