Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Lynch of Virginia deserves the eternal gratitude of all Americans, for he was . . . largely responsible for the instructions given the Virginian delegates to the colonial congress whereby the Declaration of Independence came into being...
...account of the Venezuela candidate see p. 15.-ED. James Rolph. v. Charles Lynch Sirs...
Thereafter, emergency acts of justice without court procedure were referred to as "Lynch law." In early California days and in the South just after the Civil War, Lynch law was carried so far that men, both white and Negro, were summarily executed without benefit of fair trial...
...Citizen Hoover's opinions of lynch law were not shared by the San Jose grand jury which adjourned without asking for the identity of their "patriotic" fellow townsmen...
Governor Rolph realizes this, and was not advocating lynch law. A keen observer of popular trends, he was praising a spectacular demonstration of rising public intolerance with an emasculated system of criminal law. The lynching was a challenge to the legal fraternity. It gave them a glimpse of what failure to reform will lead to. It was a crude symptom of a state of intolerance of wrong, an intolerance against ineffectuality on the part of a mechanism originally established for the public good but reduced by changing conditions and technicalities to a mockery...