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But when a trial does not deliver the verdict a riled public seeks, a lynch mob takes matters into their own hands.
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Brent Schacherer, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2024
See the shotgun my great-grandfather brandished when a lynch mob tried to claim his son.
—Gil MacIas, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
For those who don't know, Robert England plays Freddy Krueger, a hideously scarred child killer who was murdered by a lynch mob.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
On March 9, 1892, a white lynch mob instigated by Barrett killed Moss and two of his colleagues, accusing them of plotting a war against white citizens.
—Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Rumors of a rape then circulated, Rowland was arrested, and White Tulsans formed a lynch mob.
—Omar Jimenez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
While hiding out from the angry lynch mob, Peggy and Fortune wait in terror, hoping to escape.
—EW.com, 26 Nov. 2023
And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
Legal justice is hardly assured in Libya these days, although the other, rougher kind sometimes is: Al-Islam’s lawyers have warned that their client faces the death penalty or a lynch mob, with no due process either way.
—Timothy William Waters, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2013
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Brent Schacherer, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2024
See the shotgun my great-grandfather brandished when a lynch mob tried to claim his son.
—Gil MacIas, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
For those who don't know, Robert England plays Freddy Krueger, a hideously scarred child killer who was murdered by a lynch mob.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
On March 9, 1892, a white lynch mob instigated by Barrett killed Moss and two of his colleagues, accusing them of plotting a war against white citizens.
—Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Rumors of a rape then circulated, Rowland was arrested, and White Tulsans formed a lynch mob.
—Omar Jimenez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
While hiding out from the angry lynch mob, Peggy and Fortune wait in terror, hoping to escape.
—EW.com, 26 Nov. 2023
And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
Legal justice is hardly assured in Libya these days, although the other, rougher kind sometimes is: Al-Islam’s lawyers have warned that their client faces the death penalty or a lynch mob, with no due process either way.
—Timothy William Waters, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2013
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“Lynch mob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lynch%20mob. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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