Also 20 people were lynched during the Salem Witch Trials.
Lynching =/= hanging.
man what's the real difference between the two?
If you're tried and convicted, it's an execution. Literally Salem Witch Trials. It may have been barbaric rulings, but technically they were convicted of crimes.
These Italians were not convicted, the frustrated people took matters into their own hands.
Salem witches were tried and convicted in kangaroo court. it's not fundamentally different from lynching.
this. those courts had no sovereign authority to do a damn thing. ---