He introduced and fought for numerous legislative bills in support of legal lynching.

The death penalty, as applied in Texas, is often little more than a legal lynching.

He knew professionally why the community wanted its legal lynching, but to see the same attitude in officials, this was the shocker.

In Dr. Kevorkian's testimony, he said that the effort to prosecute him under the common law "was not a trial, but a legal lynching."

His trial for tax evasion was later described as a legal lynching.

At one point Mr. Ford called the state's case a "legal lynching."

"This is a legal lynching."

Wilder stopped what he saw as the legal lynching of a young man with a bright future.

A small group of death penalty opponents chanted loudly outside the Assembly chambers, "Stop legal lynching."

Mr. Bright speaks of legal lynchings.