[Huskrrrr]

“Lynched” is a harsh word. That implies she was innocent. At the very least she has a big mouth.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think lynching basically applies when a crowd takes the law into its own hands and kills someone without due process of law. A lot of victims were totally innocent, in other cases it may be impossible to know because of the lack of proper investigation, but in other cases the victim had actually done something wrong (but still was entitled to due process).

Not all victims of lynchings were black--in the Wild West most were whites, but the lynchings in the West were far fewer in number than those in the post-Civil War South.

Several years ago I ran across a magazine article about a lynching in the North in the early 1900s--the author was the grandson of a factory owner whose employees were involved in the lynching, which caused an outpouring of white guilt on his part. The black man who was killed in that case had just murdered someone--but he was still entitled to a fair trial, not being killed by an outraged mob.

[Huskrrrr]

Good points, thanks.