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Re: Lynching - statistics
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A less emotional and much better researched study than any others I have  
read is Lethal Punishment: Lynchings And Legal Executions in  the South by 
Margaret Vandiver .
 
She finds that 2805 people died at the hands of lynch mobs between 1882 and  
1930, both legal and extralegal, and that the South (former Confederate 
states)  accounted for about 74 percent of all lynchings between 1882 and 1968.   
Clearly, lynching was more of an institution, legal and otherwise, in the  South.
 
J South



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