[Lisbon1940]

There is a difference between racial lynchings and frontier-justice public hangings. She should clarify.

[Vigilanteman]

While famed English hangman James Berry might have invented it, it was the American west which perfected the art of hanging by calculating exactly the right drop and positioning the hangman's knot behind the left ear.

By making those executions public, it had a powerful deterrent effect. It was also the GOP which promoted the anti-lynching laws in America. Big difference between a just judicial hanging (public or otherwise) and a dirty lynching.

[snarkytart]

I never thought of a public hanging is something to do with lynching black people I always thought of it as just what you said it like old frontier Justice that’s when public hangings occurred.

[faucetman]

“There is a difference between racial lynchings and frontier-justice public hangings. She should clarify.”

Exactly! We used to hang “outlaws”. We used to hang murderers.

Hundreds would attend public hangings. They were the public “events” of their time.

Words mean things. “Hanging” is/was legal. Lynching is/was ILLEGAL.

I’m POSITIVE that when she said that, she didn’t have a mind picture of a Negro being lynched.

Having said all that.....

What a STUPID thing to say! Especially for a politician in MISSISSIPPI!