[jsanders2001]

Sounds more like street justice to me.

[rockabyebaby]

I like it. Maybe if more of this was done people would think twice before committing murder. I say an eye for an eye whatever the crime.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’m not opposed to capital punishment for murderers, but torture is something else entirely. Burned alive, buried alive? Let God have the vengence, if that’s what they deserve. Capital punishment in itself sends a clear enough message: if you take a life, you give up the right to keep your own.

[GoldenPup]

Sources said lynchings were not uncommon in the area, where the justice system is often corrupt...

"Coming soon to a location near you...".

[muir_redwoods]

The Inca didn’t disappear, they just learned a bit of Spanish.

Sucks to be a murderer.

[arthurus]

Sources said lynchings were not uncommon in the area, where the justice system is often corrupt and communities are known to police themselves.

That will start to happen here as law enforcement becomes ruler/mob style enforcement. It will end as totalitarianism becomes actually total.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s happened enough times in our own history, when authorities become corrupt and justice cannot be had, or was never to be had in the first place. People then take matters into their own hands. It’s not a static situation wherein the majority are just going to sit and take the abuse.

My own home state of NC was a prime example, being historically poorly administered in the colonial era by the Lords Propietors, treated more as a means of rewarding favorites of the nobles who were only interested in extorting wealth from the populace and little else, building grand palatial residences in the east of the colony by means of impoverishing yeoman farmers in the west, to the point of seizing farmsteads for petty, inconsequential matters with a princely fine. Or worse.

It can get out of hand. Innocent people can be harmed or killed. It can lead to war if neglected for a sufficiently long period of time. The question is, who is more to blame, the corrupt officials administering penury and injustice, or the mobs that inevitably form as a result?

[arthurus]

Sources said lynchings were not uncommon in the area, where the justice system is often corrupt and communities are known to police themselves.

That will start to happen here as law enforcement becomes ruler/mob style enforcement. It will end as totalitarianism becomes actually total.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Jackie Coogan participated in the lynching of two men who had participated in the murder of his college classmate, in 1933. A somewhat fictionalized account is depicted in the 1939 film Fury, staring Spencer Tracy. (In the film Tracy's character is innocent and eludes the lynching, neither of which facts obtained in the actual case.)

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Rapist’s and murderer’s have their rights too. /s/

[Kickass Conservative]

I might just be me, but shouldn’t they have put him UNDER the Casket instead of on top of it?