LYNCHING
Lynching
Lynching is murder by mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a specific sector of a population. It is related to other means of social control such as charivari, Skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering, but with a drift toward the public spectacle. Lynchings have been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have often been a mean for a dominant group to suppress challengers. However, it has also resulted from long-held prejudices and practices of discrimination that have conditioned societies to ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Lynching
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lynching
Noun
- Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging.
- The police with difficulty prevented the swaying mass from lynching him on the spot. — Jerry Stokes by
- Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person.
- Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and from which death does not result shall constitute the crime of lynching in the second degree and shall be a felony. — South Carolina Code of Laws Section 16-3-220
Verb
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