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"TO HELL WITH THE LAW" LYNCHING has many legal definitions. It
means one thing in Kentucky and North Carolina and another in
Virginia or Minnesota. For the purpose of this work it is defined
as the execution without process of the law, by a mob, of any
individual suspected or convicted of a crime or accused of an
offense against the prevailing social customs. The state of
Minnesota clearly defines it as the killing of a human being by the
act or procurement of a mob. In Kentucky and North Carolina the
lynch-victim must have been in the hands of the law or there was no
lynching. Virginia defines it simply as murder and ordains that
every person composing the mob, upon conviction, shall be punished
by death. There is more than the simple dictionary definition of
lynching. Behind every lynching, beyond the destruction of the
unfortunate victim, is the debasement of citizenship, the
crucifixion of justice and democratic government, the prostitution
of public officials, and the depraved behavior of the mob-members.
FRANK SHAY, 1938
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