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Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially hanging

The police with difficulty prevented the swaying mass from lynching him on the spot. — Jerry Stokes by Grant Allen.

Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person

Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and from which death does not result shall constitute the crime of lynching in the second degree and shall be a felony. — South Carolina Code of Laws Section 16-3-220.

{i} execution without trial; passing of a verdict without a trial; hanging of Black Americans as an act of racial violence (primarily in the South during the 1880s -1960s)
Execution of a presumed offender by a mob without trial, under the pretense of administering justice. It sometimes involves torturing the victim and mutilating the body. Lynching has often occurred under unsettled social conditions. The term derives from the name of Charles Lynch, a Virginian who headed an irregular court to persecute loyalists during the American Revolution. In the United States, lynching was widely used in the post-Reconstruction South against blacks, often to intimidate other blacks from exercising their civil rights
putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

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lynch
To commit an act of violence by a mob upon the body of another person
lynch
To execute without a proper legal trial, especially by hanging
Lynch
{i} family name; David Lynch (born 1946), Film and television director; John Lynch (1917-1999), Irish politician, prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1966-1973, 1977-1979)
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See Lynch law
lynch
kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"
lynch
To execute without a proper legal trial
lynch
{f} execute without a trial (especially by hanging)
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To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person
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If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime. They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him. + lynching lynchings lynch·ing Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws. Irish political leader who served as prime minister of Ireland (1966-1973 and 1977-1979). if a crowd of people lynches someone, they kill them, especially by hanging them, without using the usual legal process (William Lynch (1724-1820), U.S. citizen who organized illegal trials in Virginia)
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kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child
lynchings
plural of lynching
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