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court (legal) lynching

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  • Lynching in the United States — is the practice in the 19th and 20th centuries of the humiliation and killing of people by mobs acting outside the law. These murders, most of them unpunished, often took the form of hanging and burning. Mobs sometimes tortured the… …   Wikipedia

  • Lynching — Lynch mob redirects here. For the rock band, see Lynch Mob (band). For the rap group, see Da Lench Mob. An African American hanged to death in a lynching, 1925 …   Wikipedia

  • lynching — See lyncher. * * * 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… …   Universalium

  • Legal purge in Norway after World War II — When the German occupation of Norway ended in May of 1945, several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens were tried and convicted for various acts that the occupying powers sanctioned. The scope, legal basis, and fairness of these trials has… …   Wikipedia

  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching and the Excuse for It (1901) — ▪ Primary Source       In the twenty years after 1885 there were more lynchings in the United States than legal executions. The great majority of victims were African Americans, who, after a brief period of political power in the South during… …   Universalium

  • Kangaroo court — A kangaroo court is a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted .[1] The outcome of a trial by kangaroo court is essentially determined in advance, usually for the purpose of ensuring conviction, either by …   Wikipedia

  • Drumhead court-martial — A drumhead court martial is a court martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action. The term is said to originate from the use of a drumhead as an improvised writing table,[1][2] altar for religious services,… …   Wikipedia

  • League of the Holy Court — The League of the Holy Court, Vehmgericht, or just the Vehm was a secret tribunal of Westphalia during the Middle Ages, the principal seat of which was in Dortmund. Traditionally founded in the year 772 CE by Charlemagne [pg. 178 Magical… …   Wikipedia

  • Jesse Jackson, Jr. — Jesse Jackson, Jr. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois s 2nd district Incumbent …   Wikipedia

  • Marcus Dixon — Not to be confused with Marcus Dixon (Alias). Marcus Dixon No. 94     New York Jets Defensive end …   Wikipedia

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — Infobox Criminal subject name = Julius and Ethel Rosenberg image size = 200px image caption = Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their conviction date of birth = birth date|mf=yes|1918|5|12|mf=y (Julius) birth date|mf=yes|1915|9|28|mf=y (Ethel)… …   Wikipedia

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