Posted on 08/22/2023 2:25:59 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1851, three men were publicly hanged from a scaffold at Fourth and O Street in Sacramento, California: John Thompson* and James Gibson legally, and William Robinson under color of lynch law.
According to Ken Gonzales-Day’s Lynching in the West: 1850-1935, all three had been condemned to death under the brand-new state‘s brand-new Criminal Practices Act, making theft a capital offense.
They had assaulted and robbed a guy on the streets of Sacramento a few weeks previous, and the local vigilance committee had already made plain its impatience with the matter: upon the granting of a legal motion to stay the trial three days in order to allow the defense to actually prepare, an orderly posse had firmly forced the court back into session to proceed with the speediest of trials. Any outcome other than death could scarcely have come to pass....
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Here’s an idea. Why not impose the same laws today instead of whining about crime and doing NOTHING about it.
Amen.
Vigilante justice is the best kind.
Toasts where we are heading. The following should be treated as a capital offense: Murder in the 1st, kidnapping, rape, car jacking, looting, strong arm robbery, and aborting an unborn child.
Toasts = that’s.
What a concept!
The citizens determine guilty and deaths sentences not officials which are ministers.
I’ve never met an ‘innocent’ man. But then my concept of jurisprudence is an amalgam of Dirty Harry and Judge Dredd.
“If in doubt, kill them, the good Lord will know his own.” as Cromwell supposedly said.
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