# Lynching

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynching/9721>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 4, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynching/9721 "2000-04-04T21:52:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynching/9721/1 "2000-04-04T21:52:00Z")

</div>

I don’t know where to post this–I hope if this is the wrong place, it will be moved.

I don’t know how I got to this site:

[http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary](http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary)  
I looked at this Sunday, and have had bad dreams since then.

I suppose my question is: How in hell can people ever have done things like those that are depicted at this site?

* * *

Crystalguy

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynching/9721/2 "2000-04-04T21:54:00Z")

</div>

Is it just lynching you object to, or all of man’s atrocities?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynching/9721/3 "2000-04-04T21:59:00Z")

</div>

We still execute people in the United States. Lynching is execution through extra-legal means.

(Actually in California, it’s defined as the involuntary removal of a person from police custody under the color of riot, IIRC from a friend who was on a jury where one of the charges was lynching.)

This topic is sounds like a Great Debate.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynching/9721/4 "2000-04-04T22:13:00Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> Originally posted by UncleBeer:  
> **Is it just lynching you object to, or all of man’s atrocities?**

All. I have never seen photographs like these. I think nothing has ever filled me with such sorrow as I have felt since seeing them the first time.