Brenda Ann wrote:


"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.


Lynch. It would appear to have a general and specific meaning:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]


Lynch \Lynch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lynched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lynching.] [See Note under Lynch law.]
To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the
forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected
person. See Lynch law.
[1913 Webster]



WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]


lynch
v : kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched
the alleged killer of the child"