lynch law
Example Sentences
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“Police officers are carrying out lynch law right on the streets of American cities.”
From New York Times
This is the racial logic of lynch law, slavery and Jim Crow.
From Salon
His warning against “lynch law” administered by a jury or “by a mob intent on death” was vindicated when Frank was, in fact, lynched by an anti-Semitic mob.
From Washington Post
A senior Russian lawmaker denounces Washington’s response to the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain as “lynch law.”
From Washington Times
Where people have the right of trial in a legally constituted court of law, they must refrain from mob rule or from lynch law.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
