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Murder dressed up as justice, performed by a mob with no patience for courts.
means The extrajudicial killing of a person by a crowd, usually by hanging, without trial or legal authority.
from Named for Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice who jailed Loyalists without trial during the Revolution; the term later hardened into the racial terror campaign of the post-Civil War South.
Body countOver 4,400 documented in the US, 1877-1950.
Federal failureAnti-lynching law took Congress until 2022.
Spectacle horrorCrowds posed for photos sold as postcards.