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Her first pamphlet " Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" was published in 1892, when she was 30.

With titles like Lynch Law Classroom, Girl Boss Guerilla, and School of the Holy Beast, Pinky Violence became the signature genre for Japanese film studio Toei Company.

After receiving complaints about lynch law justice, the Stade police investigated Berthold's murder. In February 1921, two men were tried and acquitted of the killing.

American National Biography Online, February 2000. A document published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1836 that proposed William Lynch as the originator of "lynch law" may have been a hoax perpetrated by Edgar Allan Poe.Christopher Waldrep, The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America, Macmillan, 2002, p. 21. A better documented early use of the term "Lynch law" comes from Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace and militia officer during the American Revolution.

Currently, only the second episode of the series, Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom has been released on region-1 DVD. This film was included in the 4-disc Pinky Violence Collection released by Panik House in 2005.

Jones 2003, p. 36. Civil rights leader Frederick Douglass was a frequent visitor to the West Chester area. On February 1, 1895, he delivered a public lecture at the West Chester Normal School. The speech was entitled "Against Lynch Law".

When his father is shot in a drive-by shooting, Breezy leads the cattlemen against the well-armed gangsters who no longer have the power of a bribed administration or high-powered legal protection, but now have to face six-gun justice and lynch law.

"Hanging judge" is a colloquial phrase for a judge who has gained notoriety for handing down punishment by sentencing convicted persons to death by hanging, or otherwise imposing unusually harsh sentences. Hanging judges are officers of the court with mandates, as opposed to extralegal lynch law.

Captain William Lynch (1742–1820) was a man from Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He claimed to be the source of the terms "lynch law" and "lynching." He is not the William Lynch who allegedly made the William Lynch speech in 1712, as the date on the apocryphal speech precedes his birth by 30 years.

Map of the Colony of Virginia during the pre-revolutionary era. Charles Lynch (1736–1796) was a Virginia planter, politician, and American revolutionary who headed an irregular court in Virginia to punish Loyalist supporters of the British during the American Revolutionary War. The terms "lynching" and "lynch law" are believed to be derived from his name.

In the aftermath of the lynching, Governor Rolph was publicly condemned for advocating "lynch law" by former President Herbert Hoover, then at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Rolph replied, "If troops had been called out, hundreds of innocent citizens might have been mowed down." Rolph accused Hoover of calling out the United States Army against the "Bonus Marchers" in 1932. The exchange continued.

Forewords attached to some online versions of the speech credit the narrator's name as the source of the terms "lynching" and "Lynch law", despite the narrator specifically advocating against lynching. A man named William Lynch did indeed claim to have originated the term during the American Revolutionary War, but he was born in 1742, thirty years after the alleged delivery of the speech.Brent Tarter. "Lynch, Charles".

It had been some time since an insanity plea had been reported and many US newspapers scorned the idea. In general, they praised the bold justifiable homicide verdict. However, the New- York Tribune strongly disagreed and argued that no social inconvenience and no difficulty in obtaining regular convictions was an excuse to set a precedent for permitting "lynch law". The Nebraska advertiser argued that since the love affair had been "mutually agreeable", Mrs.

Over the next five years Mulvany worked in Eldon, Iowa; St Louis, Missouri; Denver, Colorado; and Louisville, Kentucky, painting portraits and western genre pictures. In 1876 he exhibited Preliminary Trial of a Horsethief in New York City. The painting, reportedly sold for $5000, won him national recognition and a reputation as a Western painter.Taft Other western-themed works include Lynch Law – Comrade’s Appeal 1877,National Academy of Design 1877 #461 Scouts of the Yellowstone, 1877"Cincinnati Enquirer" 10 Nov.

Lucas and Wright, p. 81 It further empowered peace officers to recruit able-bodied men to help protect prisoners and fined them for failing to do so, if necessary. Despite the politically divided legislature, the bill quickly passed both houses of the General Assembly and Bradley signed it on May 11, 1897.Lucas and Wright, p. 82 In January 1898, Bradley accepted an invitation to speak before the Anti-Mob and Lynch Law Association in Springfield, Ohio.

Lynching and Lynch-Law date back to the 1700s when the term was first used by the Scotch- Irish in reference to an act pursued by the Quakers toward Native Americans. The law was originally regulatory, providing regulations regarding how lynching could and could not be carried out. Most crimes of and relating to lynching prior to 1830 were frontier crimes and were considered justifiable due to necessity. Groups of armed White men, called slave patrols, monitored enslaved African Americans.

Lynch law was renewed with the anti-slavery movement, as several acts of violence towards people of color took place in the early 1830s. In August 1831, Nat Turner led the slave insurrection in Virginia. Turner, an African-American Baptist preacher, believing that the Lord had destined him to free his race, followed through with his plans to conquer Southampton county through the enlistment of other slaves. He did so by traveling from house to house murdering every White person he could find.

Hubbard, an abusive man who was often violent toward his wife and two sons, Seth and Ancil, tried to go to court. However, Sylvester had an unassailable title to the land, registered by the family during the Reconstruction period when federal troops, present in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War, upheld the rights of blacks. Having failed in court, Hubbard resorted to the alternative method available at the time to whites in the Deep South, i.e. lynch law.

In order to avoid Japan's strict censorship laws, which limited depictions of actual sex and pubic hair, erotic films (known as pink films) often relied on fetish elements which could skirt such restrictions. One such film, Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom in 1973, would be the first to depict an omorashi scenario to a cinematic audience. As the AV (adult video) genre took hold in the 1980s, videos specifically devoted to omorashi began to appear. Several notable AV idols have starred in such scenes, including Sakura Sakurada.

Subsequently, he prevailed upon his friends in the Congress of the Confederation to pass a law that exonerated him and his associates from wrongdoing. He was concerned that he might face legal action from one or more of those he had imprisoned, notwithstanding the American Colonies had won the war. This action by the Congress provoked controversy, and it was in connection with this that the term Lynch law, meaning the assumption of extrajudicial authority, came into common parlance in the United States. Lynch was not accused of racist bias.

Although it boasted two English- language newspapers (and, for a while, a third in Norwegian), and telephones had arrived in town, lynch law sometimes prevailed (there were at least four lynchings in 1882), schools barely operated, and indoor plumbing was a rare novelty. In the low mud flats where much of the city was built, sewage was almost as likely to come in on the tide as to flow away. Potholes in the street were so bad that legend has it there was at least one fatal drowning.

Also in 1896, Barnett became the first black assistant state's attorney in Illinois, appointed by the state's attorney Charles S. Deneen upon the recommendation of the Cook County Commissioner Edward H. Wright. As assistant state's attorney, Barnett worked in the juvenile court, in antitrust cases, and in habeas corpus and extradition proceedings. He frequently appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court and had a good record. In 1902, Barnett made national news when he suggested that 10 million blacks would revolt against lynch law in the South at a gathering at Bethlehem Church in Chicago.

As a piece of literature, the poem was a response to the Little Rock events, in the same way as was Fables of Faubus by jazzist Charles Mingus. The coherence of Butler's vindication can be found in later works in which he «continued to rail against the rabid racism of the United States. His ironic El Gran Zoo (The Great Zoo) is caustic in its critic of "Lynch Law"Thomas Gayton, "Soul Brothers/Hermanos del Alma" in Thomas Gayton & Afrocuban Anthology 2005, page 16 (a law that is satirized in the verse "[...] sons of Lynch their playmates" of "Little Rock").

The Great Northern Railway finally came to Seattle in 1884, winning Seattle a place in competition for freight, though it would be 1906 before Seattle finally acquired a major rail passenger terminal. Seattle in this era was a freebooting and often relatively lawless town. Although it boasted newspapers and telephones, lynch law often prevailed (there were at least four deaths by lynching in 1882), schools barely operated, and indoor plumbing was a rare novelty. In the low mudflats where much of the city was built, sewage was almost as likely to come in on the tide as to flow away.

The origins of the word lynch are obscure, but it likely originated during the American Revolution. The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s. Charles Lynch is more likely to have coined the phrase, as he was known to have used the term in 1782, while William Lynch is not known to have used the term until much later.

Her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. In the 1890s, Wells documented lynching in the United States through her pamphlet called Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases, investigating frequent claims of whites that lynchings were reserved for black criminals only. Wells exposed lynching as a barbaric practice of whites in the South used to intimidate and oppress African Americans who created economic and political competition—and a subsequent threat of loss of power—for whites. A white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses as her investigative reporting was carried nationally in black-owned newspapers.

Cover of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases The murders led to increasing grief and unrest among the black population, along with rumors that blacks planned to meet at the People's Grocery and take revenge against whites. Judge DuBose ordered the sheriff to take possession of the swords and guns belonging to the Tennessee Rifles and to dispatch a hundred men to the People's Grocery where they should "shoot down on sight any Negro who appears to be making trouble." Gangs of armed white men rushed to the Curve and began shooting wildly into any groups of blacks they encountered, then looted the grocery. Subsequently, the grocery was sold for one-eighth its cost to William Barrett.

A Times editorial the next day vilified Sicilians in general: > These sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and > assassins, who have transported to this country the lawless passions, the > cut-throat practices, and the oath-bound societies of their native country, > are to us a pest without mitigation. Our own rattlesnakes are as good > citizens as they...Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New > Orleans. Many commentators offered a pro forma condemnation of vigilantism before ultimately blaming the victims and defending the lynchers. Massachusetts representative Henry Cabot Lodge, for example, claimed to deplore the mob's behavior, and then proceeded to justify it while proposing new restrictions on Italian immigration.

According to the American National Biography: > What was purported to be the text of the Pittsylvania agreement was later > printed in the Southern Literary Messenger (2 [May 1836]: 389). However, the > Pittsylvania County alliance, if it was formed at all, was so obscure > compared to the well-known suppression of the uprising in southwestern > Virginia that Charles Lynch's use of the phrase makes it seem most probable > that it was derived from his actions, not from William Lynch's. The compact published in the Southern Literary Messenger that proposed William Lynch as the originator of "lynch law" may have been a hoax perpetrated by Edgar Allan Poe.Christopher Waldrep, The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America, Macmillan, 2002, p. 21.

During the Watergate scandal and the ensuing impeachment process he defended President Richard Nixon. He blamed "nonpoliticians" for Watergate by placing blame onto people such as Attorney General John N. Mitchell, stated that those who supported impeachment were trying to lynch Nixon, and he agreed with Nixon's decision to dismiss special prosecutor Archibald Cox. When the House decided to investigate the case for impeachment on October 23, 1973 Kuykendall came to the House floor with a noose and warned the other members against using lynch law tactics. However, on August 5, 1974 he stated that he would reexamine his position on impeachment due to Nixon having refused to hand over evidence to the House and stated that he would support impeachment shortly before Nixon's resignation.

Scholar Caroline Waldron argues in her 2000 journal article "'Lynch-law Must Go!': Race, Citizenship, and the Other in an American Coal Mining Town" that the riot's African American victims were able to win the legal case against their attackers due to the Quinn Chapel funding their legal fees and by garnering support from powerful individuals and groups in Chicago. Scholar Felix Armfield argues in his 2000 journal article "Fire on the Prairie: The 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot" that the government, and Governor Altgeld more specifically, failed to adequately respond to the riots in a way that would help African American victims. Armfield argues that Altgeld worked to preserve the interests of the immigrant population in Spring Valley in the riot.

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial In 1921, Francis was honored with a silver loving cup and a ceremony at the Pilgrim Baptist Church, "on behalf of the race, men and women of St. Paul, as a small token of appreciation for your effort in behalf of the race, in conceiving and working for the consummation of the Anti-Lynch Law passed in the Legislature April 18, 1921". Francis was honored by the Nashville Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women in a tribute at the Student Union Center of Fisk University in 1962. On Women's Equality Day, August 26, 2000, the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial was opened on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol. Francis is one of 25 women honored for leading the fight for votes for women, each named on a steel trellis in the garden.

However, the width of Market also aroused the ire of property owners, who felt the new street was excessively wide and potentially encroached on their holdings; they made preparations to lynch O'Farrell. In Forgotten Pioneers, T.F. Prendergast recounts: > When the engineer had completed his map of Market Street and the southern > part of the city, what was regarded as the abnormal width of the proposed > street excited part of the populace, and an indignation meeting was held to > protest against the plan as wanton disregard for rights of landowners; and > the mob, for such it was, decided for lynch law. A friend warned O'Farrell > before the crowd had dispersed. He rode with all haste to North Beach, took > a boat for Sausalito, and thence put distance behind him on fast horses in > relay until he reached his retreat in Sonoma.

Cover of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases In 1892, three men, including a friend of Ida B. Wells, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody in Memphis, Tennessee, in an event known as the Peoples Grocery lynching. The act sparked a national outcry and Barnett took part in meetings in Chicago called to organize reaction. At a meeting of one thousand people at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Reverend W. Gaines' call for the crowd to sing the then de facto national anthem, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", but the call was refused, one member of the audience declaring, "I don't want to sing that song until this country is what it claims to be, 'sweet land of liberty'". Gaines substituted the Civil War-era song about the abolitionist martyr, "John Brown's Body".

Convicted Nazi war criminal Wladislaw Dopierla before execution at Landsberg prison, 1948 By 1948 the Bavarian Ministry of Justice's Association for the Welfare of Prisoners (Vereinigung für die Wohlfahrt von Gefangenen des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums der Justiz) managed the needs of the prisoners held by the American military. With the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1949 and its abolition of the death penalty, calls from politicians, the churches, industrialists, and artists resulted in numerous petitions being made to close down War Criminal Prison No. 1. as part of a general effort to bring freedom for all Germans convicted of war crimes. In the last half of 1950 and the first half of 1951, thousands of Germans took part in demonstrations outside Landsberg prison to demand pardons for all the war criminals while the German media coverage was overwhelmingly on the side of the condemned, who were depicted as the innocent victims of American "lynch law".

For many years Stawell enjoyed the leading practice at the local bar, and when the Port Phillip district of New South Wales was separated from the parent colony, and entered upon an independent existence as the Colony of Victoria, Stawell accepted the position of Attorney-General on 15 July 1851 and became a member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council. A few weeks after Stawell's appointment gold was discovered in Victoria; the duty of creating a system of government which could cope adequately with the situation fell to him. Stawell had to establish a police force, frame regulations for the government of the goldfields, appoint magistrates and officials of every grade, and protect life and property against the perceived threat of the hordes of gold rush adventurers who arrived in Victoria, first from the neighbouring colonies, and later from Europe and America. Much was owed to the firm administration of Stawell that, at a time when the government was weak, and many of the newcomers impatient of control, lynch law was never resorted to.