Category talk:Lynching deaths in Illinois

Inappropriate inclusions
It really doesn't seem appropriate to include Joseph and Hyrum Smith among actual lynching victims. Outside of whitewashed Mormon history, they are NOT considered lynching victims, and their inclusion here is an insult to victims of actual lynchings.ChipmunkSviatko (talk) 05:52, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A lynching victim is anyone who was purposively killed extrajudicially by a group of persons, often by what is commonly referred to as a mob or a gang. The Smiths definitely qualify under this definition, and there are reliable sources that refer to them as lynching victims. Mormon sources actually rarely use such language in referring to the Smiths' deaths because they prefer to use the more religiously focused term "martyred". It's the "secular", non-Mormon sources that refer to them as victims of lynching. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:13, 15 December 2014 (UTC)