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05.02.2023 22:39

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Нужен перевод текста. captain charles lynch, of virginia, author of the infamous lynch law, will forever be linked with 'vigilante justice'. lynch decided that he and his neighbours were too far from lawmakers and sheriffs to punish properly the vandals and robbers terrorizing the rural area. he encouraged the fellow citizens to sign a declaration he drafted, announcing the intention to 'take matters in their own hands'. "if they (criminals) do not desist from their evil practices, we will inflict such corporal punishment on them, as to us shall seem adequate to the crime committed or the damage sustained.1* although the death penalty was not always exacted, in most cases the punishment turned out to be hanging. in addition to the fact that many innocent victims suffered lynching, a certain amount of guilt among the lynchers can be ascertained by the very technique for hanging criminals. lynch and his cohorts practiced a form of passive hanging. a rope was tied around a tree and the condemned man placed on a horse with the other side of the rope strung snugly around his neck, so the criminal was killed not by the captors tightening the noose, but the whim of the horse. when the horse moved far enough away from the tree, the rope choked the horseman. заранее