...the punishment, especially the death penalty, meted out by the people without going through proper legal procedures. The name is said to come from the name of Charles Lynch, a Virginia lyncher who inflicted private punishment on loyalists who supported Britain during the American War of Independence. During the pioneering days of the West, where the judicial system was underdeveloped, lynchings of suspected criminals were not uncommon, and even in the South before the Civil War, abolitionists and those who helped fugitive slaves were often hanged or burned at the stake by the people. After the Civil War, lynchings became frequent, including those organized by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and in the 1890s, the number of recorded cases averaged more than 150 per year. *Some of the terminology that mentions "Lynch, C." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…正規の法手続を経ずに,民衆が処罰,とくに死刑を行うこと。アメリカの独立戦争中,イギリス本国に味方する王党派に対して私的制裁を加えたバージニアのリンチCharles Lynchの名が語源とされている。開拓時代の西部では司法組織が未発達だったこともあって,犯罪容疑者に対するリンチは珍しくなかったし,南北戦争前の南部でも奴隷制廃止論者や逃亡奴隷を助けた者が,しばしば民衆により絞首刑や火刑に処せられた。南北戦争後はクー・クラックス・クラン(KKK)などによる組織的なものを含めてリンチが頻発し,1890年代には記録されているものだけで年平均150件以上にのぼった。… ※「Lynch,C.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
Year of death: 26th April, 1200 (9th June, 1200) Y...
...Long-distance swimming, called Encho (Shinden-...
Born: 1874. Kumagai [Died] 1948 A narrator of sekk...
The former name of a town (Bunsui-machi) in Nishi...
…Generally, they have no pelvic fins. The total l...
In the Catholic Church, an interdict is a punishme...
...Tests to check for nystagmus include the gaze ...
… Sakurada, who was called the Hugo of the East f...
〘Noun〙 A breed of dog. A small breed weighing 2-3 ...
An old town in Kaho District, central Fukuoka Pref...
…In 1873, he was sent to the Austrian World Expos...
…General term for mammals belonging to the Noctil...
…On the other hand, sidewall-type air cushion shi...
The crime of assembling a group of people with wea...
Satellite broadcasting is a system in which telev...