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Charles Lynch and lynching

  • In 1780, during the U.S. independence process, a group led by Virginian landlord and politician Charles Lynch (1736-1796) discovered several lealists who supported the United Kingdom.

Informally, without any legal guarantee, Lynch decided to hang the lealists. Two years later, Lynch himself wrote for the first time the concept of the “Lynch Law”, which indicated, without official authorization but in an organized manner, the conviction of the alleged offenders. From there came the word lynching, which would extend to several languages.

It was not, of course, the first execution carried out in this way and it would not be the last lynching. But since then, his last name has been linked to lynchings.


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