Citations:lynching

Execution other than by hanging

 * 1903, Chicago Record-Herald, "Fiery sermon by pastor", 24 June 1903, (Ginzburg pp. 53-57).
 * Prior to the lynching, White was incarcerated in the Newcastle County workhouse. [...] *:Another strong rope was brought and the negro was wrapped in its coils from shoulders to feet. His lips were moving while this was going on, and he seemed to be trying to finish his statement.  The crowd was in a hurry to get through with its work, and called out for the executioners to hasten.  After the rope had been adjusted the negro was fastened to the stake and the torch was applied to the straw.
 * The flames leaped up and licked the man's bare hands. He was held erect be one of the lynchers until his clothing was burning fairly, when he was pushed into the bed of the fire.  He rolled about and his contortions were terrible, but he made no sound.  Suddenly the ropes on his legs parted and he sprang from the fire and started to run.  Aman struck him in the head with a piece of fence rail and knocked him down.  Willing hands again threw him into the flames.  He rolled out several times, but was promptly returned.
 * 1904, Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post, 8 February 1904, (Ginzburg, p. 63)
 * An eye-witness to the lynching of Luther Holbert and his wife...gave...the following details...
 * "When the two Negroes were captured, they were tied to trees and while the funeral pyres were being prepared, they were forced to hold out their hands while one finger at a time was chopped off. The fingers were distributed as souvenirs.  The ears of the murderers were cut off.  Holbert was beaten severely, his skull was fractured and one of his eyes, knocked out with a stick, hung by a shred from the socket.
 * "Some of the mob used a large corkscrew to bore into the flesh of the man and woman. It was applied to their arms, legs and body, then pulled out, the spirals tearing out big pieces of raw, quivering flesh every time it was withdrawn."
 * 2008, James Harmon Chadbourn, Lynching and the Law, page 8, ISBN 1584778296.
 * The silence was broken as a tall Waco citizen, driver of a brewery truck, yelled to the crowd, "Get the nigger!" A gruesome burning at the stake followed.
 * The following lynchings are similar...