That’s a very instructive story.
L
Mob Trial and Execution, an Illinois historical marker near the mob lynching site where the Banditti "prairie pirates", father and son John and William Driscoll of the Driscoll gang, were tried by an illegal Regulator court of 500 concerned citizens for murder and shot to death by a firing squad of 111 men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banditti_of_the_Prairie
TI saw the t,v. episode on that and read the book.