Talk:Great Hanging at Gainesville

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Lynching not "execution by hanging"
The term execution by hanging should not be used of lynching. Whilst technically a lynching is an execution by hanging, the concept is somewhat different.Royalcourtier (talk) 01:03, 7 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Agree that lynching is not a synonym for hanging. Hanging was simply the preferred means of execution, especially when a public display was wanted. Lynching is defined as "extrajudicial punishment", usually murder. In this case, the murders were committed nominally under military authority: Col. James Bourland's troops had captured the suspects and Col. Young put the Citizen's Court together. But it had no basis in state law, and there was no Confederate punishment for people who failed to report for the draft. 14 men can be considered lynched by the mob, as they had not been tried even by this erstwhile jury. The mob pressure is considered to have contributed to the reversals of acquittals of 19 men and their subsequent conviction and hanging. According to McCaslin and others, problems persisted in North Texas as Confederate officers and troops exceeded their authority and committed murders. Parkwells (talk) 16:01, 11 February 2018 (UTC)