Lynching is the unjustified setting aside of judicial due process for mob vengeance. Contrary to present-day popular conception, lynching was not a crime committed exclusively against black people. Between the 1830s and the 1850s the majority of those lynched in the United States were whites. From 1882-1968, some 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States (not all lynchings were recorded). Of these, 3,446 or 73 percent were black and 1,297 (27 percent) were white.
If people are going to toss about charges and counter-charges about the meaning of “lynching”, at least get some historical perspective.
The Democrats seem to forget that the Democrats and KKK ( but I repeat myself) lynched Republicans as well as blacks in the South!
“Unjustified” is debateable.
Many times some dudes just need killin’. Dirty Harry is a good example of how that may come about.
But yes, it was EXTRALEGAL.