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He compared the riot to “a lynch mob of 150 years ago,” and lamented how many Americans have become “hate-filled.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

In 1962, the white lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird” confronts a lynch mob intent on hanging his client, an innocent Black man, later telling the jury, “In our courts, all men are created equal.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

Angry readers wrote to The Times in response to my favorable review of the series, insisting I was part of a lynch mob: “Shame on you!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2021

The verb to lynch means to execute without a trial or due process.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

In Zambia, the hearsay about disappearing genitals first gained traction in March when a woman was lynched, going on to spread panic across the border in Tanzania.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Leopoldstadt” went on to win best play, while best musical revival went to another searing work about antisemitism: “Parade,” starring Ben Platt as Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched in 1915 in Georgia.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

You do not expect the star of a musical about a man lynched by an antisemitic mob to be his wife.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Stokes is clear that he does not know whether Fortune's death was a lynching, or whether race played a part at all.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

In spite of all that, Diddy's mother recently defended her son on Sunday and accused the media and others of engaging in a "public lynching."

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024

The country singer labeled allegations that the song or video made references to lynching or that it is racially charged as “meritless” and “dangerous.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

The law makes lynching a federal hate crime.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023

Then again, I also understood that Kathy was only doing what students of my generation had done to help end lynching.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson