yup around a hundred years ago.....it was a novel, not history....
ever see Lonesome Dove....also not history(the original miniseries with Duvall and Jones)?
they hung their friend Jake Spoon cause he traveled with dirt bags who were murdering folks 'for sh!ts and giggles' even though he did not do it himself.
in the end he was glad he was being hung by friends and not strangers.....
“yup around a hundred years ago.....it was a novel, not history....”
Are you not aware that novels are written by real historical people? In this case Mark Twain, who clearly was opposed to lynchings even when carried out against white men.
“they hung their friend Jake Spoon cause he traveled with dirt bags who were murdering folks ‘for sh!ts and giggles’ even though he did not do it himself.”
First of all, that was the “wild” west, and you can’t convincingly argue that our current situation vis-a-vis molesters is comparable. Second, their actions were informed by the fact that they had been lawmen, which means their actions are more applicable to rogue judges.