"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"SeeingEyeDog" wrote in message
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The death penalty is a possible sentence for Treason. Only a leftist
commie
sympathizer would refer to it as a lynching - LOL.

Lynching, so far as I am aware, refers to hanging of a person without
benefit of a trial. The definition could have changed.. YMMV.

Funny coincidence department. I've always been under the same impression,
but I've been studying up on the subject recently and have learned that it
means (and always has) execution without the benefit of due process, usually
by a mob. (I'm not sure where the exact line between straight out, plain old
murder and a lynching murder is.) It's just that hanging was the usual
method in the U.S. and so we make the connection between the two.

However, the killing of any person without benefit of a trial is murder,
irregardless of the crime of which they are accused.

Irregardless isn't a word, either.