Lynching

It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.

The last mass lynching in America occurred in 1946.

Tom hid in Ali's house to escape lynching by the angry Tatoebans.

The lynching events have only increased since then.

The police with difficulty prevented the swaying mass from lynching him on the spot.

Atlanta newspapers fanned the flames of racial hatred by carrying stories of lynchings and calling for a renewed Ku Klux Klan to “control” blacks.