legal lynching
1Lynching in the United States — is the practice in the 19th and 20th centuries of the humiliation and killing of people by mobs acting outside the law. These murders, most of them unpunished, often took the form of hanging and burning. Mobs sometimes tortured the… …
2lynching — lynch·ing n 1: the crime of lynching a person 2: lynch law Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
3Lynching — Lynch mob redirects here. For the rock band, see Lynch Mob (band). For the rap group, see Da Lench Mob. An African American hanged to death in a lynching, 1925 …
4lynching — See lyncher. * * * Execution of a presumed offender by a mob without trial, under the pretense of administering justice. It sometimes involves torturing the victim and mutilating the body. Lynching has often occurred under unsettled social… …
5Legal purge in Norway after World War II — When the German occupation of Norway ended in May of 1945, several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens were tried and convicted for various acts that the occupying powers sanctioned. The scope, legal basis, and fairness of these trials has… …
6Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching and the Excuse for It (1901) — ▪ Primary Source In the twenty years after 1885 there were more lynchings in the United States than legal executions. The great majority of victims were African Americans, who, after a brief period of political power in the South during… …
7Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill — Main article: Leonidas C. Dyer The Dyer Anti Lynching Bill, introduced by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, a Republican from Saint Louis, Missouri, in the US House of Representatives in 1918, was directed at punishing lynchings and mob violence.… …
8Jesse Jackson, Jr. — Jesse Jackson, Jr. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois s 2nd district Incumbent …
9Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — Infobox Criminal subject name = Julius and Ethel Rosenberg image size = 200px image caption = Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their conviction date of birth = birth date|mf=yes|1918|5|12|mf=y (Julius) birth date|mf=yes|1915|9|28|mf=y (Ethel)… …
10Marcus Dixon — Not to be confused with Marcus Dixon (Alias). Marcus Dixon No. 94     New York Jets Defensive end …
