Lynching, ie penalty without trial, appeared in 1860, on the eve of the War of Independence in the United States between the North and the slave-owning South.The founder of this method of punishment is considered to be an American judge Charles Lynch, who considered it a legitimate judiciary is insufficient to restore the rule of law.Wartime proved fertile ground for the emergence and development of the wild arbitrariness, usually ending by hanging or burning at the stake condemned whose guilt has not always been proven.Lynching - a ruthless massacre, which took place under the cheers of the crowd, thirsting for thrills.
Most Lynching extended to blacks, which in fact often committed crimes against whites, stealing, stealing cattle, raping women.However lynch Negro might and mere suspicion, without presenting evidence.That was the essence of the often cruel and unfair retaliation entitled Lynching.After the War of Independence in 1865, the northerners actually occupied the southern states.Confederate forces for a song to sell the lands and property.Slavery was abolished, negros got freedom and could do anything.
But blacks received the freedom did not know how to apply it, yesterday's slaves and drunk in droves to commit crimes.The punishment followed almost immediately, the offender caught and killed in the nearby woods, using him Lynching.In the early postwar years it was organized groups of retaliation, the so-called forces of the Ku Klux Klan.The name of these militant groups came from the typical triple-clicking the shutter a multiply carbine mark "hard drive", resembling the sound "Ku Klux Klan".Marks KKK became a fiery wooden cross mounted on the open countryside.Cross burning for several hours, and the Ku Klux klanovtsy carry out their rituals, the final of which was the murder of another condemned criminal.
In 1870-74, the KKK was outlawed by the federal government of the United States, but little has changed, blacks continued to be executed without trial, although no funeral processions in white robes and hoods.Works of self-appointed judges enough, the crimes were many and not only among blacks.White hijackers cattle across the crime scene and death awaited them on the same day, by hanging from the nearest tree.The same fate awaited any thief, thief or robber.Murderers and rapists are also ruthlessly destroyed without trial.Lynching gradually acquired even the semblance of legitimacy, it is increasingly attended by judges, prosecutors, officials who have the power.
During the 19th century the United States was a wave of attacks against members of groups retaliation prisons and courts.Many thought that the judicial system of America clumsy, too liberal, too hardened criminals receive lighter penalty, minor sentences for the brutal murders and other crimes.Already convicted by the court dragged from prison and killed on the street, there were a few cases where the indoor court sentenced discourage police escort and immediately executed at the courthouse.A judge with the barbaric actions of the crowd did not interfere.Lynch was a law that set the tone for a long time in American jurisprudence.
