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lynch

verb as in kill by hanging

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What follows is a surreal adventure complete with harrowing eugenics experiments and lynchings, hair’s-breadth escapes and unlikely alliances.

This breathtakingly ambitious show tells the story of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a gross miscarriage of justice that culminated in his antisemitic lynching.

Journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed “No Other Land,” wrote Monday on X that “a group of settlers just lynched” his collaborator.

The lynching of Frank was a precipitating moment for the rise of the KKK in the early 20th century.

From Salon

Before us was a photo of two Italian men who had been lynched, hanging from a tree.

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