Editing Lynching (section)

{{Short description|Extrajudicial killing by a group}}
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[[File:Lynching2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An unidentified African-American man lynched from a tree, 1925]]
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'''Lynching''' is an [[extrajudicial killing]] by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle (often in the form of a hanging) for maximum intimidation.<ref>{{cite book | title=Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947 | publisher=North Carolina University Press | author=Wood, Amy Louise | year=2009 | isbn=9780807878118|oclc = 701719807}}</ref> Instances of lynchings and similar mob violence can be found in all societies.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Berg|first1=Manfred|last2=Wendt|first2=Simon|date=2011|title=Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-11588-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/globali_xxx_2011_00_2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Vigilantism and the state in modern Latin America : essays on extralegal violence | publisher=Praeger | author=Huggins, Martha Knisely | year=1991 | location=New York | isbn=0275934764|oclc = 22984858}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Lynching : American mob murder in global perspective | publisher=Ashgate | author=Thurston, Robert W. | year=2011 | location=Burlington, VT | isbn=9781409409083|oclc = 657223792}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://academic.oup.com/illinois-scholarship-online/book/14101 |title=Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East |date=February 15, 2017 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09930-4 |editor-last=Pfeifer |editor-first=Michael J |language=en |doi=10.5406/illinois/9780252040801.001.0001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1vjqrpr |title=Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe |date=2017 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-04138-9 |editor-last=Pfeifer |editor-first=Michael J |doi=10.5406/j.ctt1vjqrpr |jstor=10.5406/j.ctt1vjqrpr}}</ref>

[[Lynching in the United States|In the United States]], where the word ''lynching'' likely originated, lynchings of [[African Americans]] became frequent in the [[Southern United States|South]] during the period after the [[Reconstruction era]], especially during the [[nadir of American race relations]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2016/02/21st-century-lynchings/ |title=21st Century Lynchings? |first=Karlos K. |last=Hill |date=February 28, 2016 |access-date=July 3, 2020 |work=Cambridge Blog |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref>