lynch   (l nch) tr.v. lynched, lynch·ing, lynch·es. To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob. [Short for lynch law.] lynch er n.

Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by Hilton Als and James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America.

An African American victim of a 1928 lynching. Between 1880 and 1930, an estimated 2,400 black men, women, and children were killed by lynch mobs.

Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment meted out by a mob. Lynching, an enumerated felony in some states in the United States, is defined by some codes of law as "Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person," with a ' mob ' being defined as "the assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another.United States · Europe · Mexico · Dominican Republic · South Africa · India

Lynching 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. To demonstrate a ritual of power, mobs sometimes tortured the victim.Name origin · Social characteristics · Frontier · Reconstruction (1865 ...

Collection of essays, extracts, and photographs of victims.

Lynchings in America A History Not Known By Many. When I was a boy growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, the word lynching was hardly ever mentioned.

Lynching. Lynching is the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob. The term lynching probably derived from the name Charles Lynch (1736-96), a justice of the peace who ...