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Mob justice with no judge, no jury, just a verdict and a rope.
means To kill someone, usually by hanging, through mob action and without any legal trial or authority.
from From Captain Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice who jailed Loyalists without proper trials during the Revolution; his name curdled into infamy.
Lynch's LawHis name became shorthand for extralegal punishment by 1782.
American horrorThousands lynched in the post-Civil War South.
Federal failureAnti-lynching laws stalled in Congress for over a century.