| rdfs:comment | - Sometimes victims of lynchings were accused of serious crimes but were killed without proper trial. That means we can't be sure if they actually did any of the crimes they died for. All too often victims were accused of minor crimes like shop lifting or had simply gone against local customs. The issue of the victim's guilt is usually secondary, since the mob serves as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. Due process yields to momentary passions and expedient objectives.
- Lynching was invented by a man named David Lynch, who got the idea as a way to end racism. The original concept was an inter-racial pinata game. Things were horribly misinterpreted when he drunkenly explained to his friends at the Kool Kids Klub. When done right, it is a fine theme for picnic.
- See etymology section of lynch article.
- Lynching can be a great decision or a disastrous one. Any player needs to give careful thought about who to lynch based on the evidence available.
* Asking for attributes/abilities is considered metagaming. Although it's not wrong to metagame, it's highly frowned upon by the community. Players may also copy and paste said attributes/abilities from the Wikia or other sources. Thus, there's not much use to ask for said attributes/abilities.
* Is there substantial evidence against the accused player? If so, what is the evidence and how valid is it? If the evidence is good and the players giving evidence are trusted, go for the lynch. If the accuser claims to be a Sheriff, Investigator, etc. and are accused on Day 2, chances are they are an Executioner.
* Has the player who is being
- In 2153, at least one Skagaran was lynched this way. He was believed to have killed a man, which was considered a hanging offense for a Skagaran whether it was in self defense or not. His last words were, "Go to hell." Sheriff MacReady regretted that the man could not be brought to trial, although local school teacher Bethany argued that if he had been, the same people who had lynched him would have been in the jury.
- From the 1880s until well into the 20th century, nearly 5,000 lynchings have been documented in the United States. In Cecil County, the historical record indicates that there were two lynchings.
* On the evening of July 29, 1872, three African-American men were brought before the Magistrate Bell in Warwick on the charge of firing a dwelling near Sassafras. During the hearing, it was ordered that John Jones, Robert T. Handy and a young person named Thomas were to be committed to the Cecil County Jail for further investigation. Special Constable Merritt put the three men in his carriage (two were manacled and one was riding free) for the trip to the county seat. As they passed through a woods near Pivot Bridge (outside Chesapeake City), a group of men “in disguise” surrounded the carriage
- I cannot believe how lynching was simply tolerated by our government for years, and how in the south it was often celebrated by large groups of whites. Lynching was a way white people like the Ku Klux Klan would threaten the black race. Lynching did not necessarily mean hanging. It often included humiliation, torture, burning, dismemberment, and castration. No white man was ever punished for lynching until 1915. There were 3,233 lynching, in one form or another in this country in the twenty-one years ending January 1, 1903. In some or many photos of lynching at the turn of the century, onlookers and even members of the mob can be seen smiling and grinning for the camera after the lynching. Black victims were hacked to death, dragged behind cars, burned, beaten, whipped, and even sometimes
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| abstract | - Sometimes victims of lynchings were accused of serious crimes but were killed without proper trial. That means we can't be sure if they actually did any of the crimes they died for. All too often victims were accused of minor crimes like shop lifting or had simply gone against local customs. The issue of the victim's guilt is usually secondary, since the mob serves as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner. Due process yields to momentary passions and expedient objectives.
- Lynching was invented by a man named David Lynch, who got the idea as a way to end racism. The original concept was an inter-racial pinata game. Things were horribly misinterpreted when he drunkenly explained to his friends at the Kool Kids Klub. When done right, it is a fine theme for picnic.
- See etymology section of lynch article.
- From the 1880s until well into the 20th century, nearly 5,000 lynchings have been documented in the United States. In Cecil County, the historical record indicates that there were two lynchings.
* On the evening of July 29, 1872, three African-American men were brought before the Magistrate Bell in Warwick on the charge of firing a dwelling near Sassafras. During the hearing, it was ordered that John Jones, Robert T. Handy and a young person named Thomas were to be committed to the Cecil County Jail for further investigation. Special Constable Merritt put the three men in his carriage (two were manacled and one was riding free) for the trip to the county seat. As they passed through a woods near Pivot Bridge (outside Chesapeake City), a group of men “in disguise” surrounded the carriage and took the prisoners. Hours later, when Sheriff Thomas and Deputy White arrived from Elkton, they found one of the men “strung up by a rope around his neck to the limb of a hickory tree,” according to the Delawarean. No trace of the other two men was found.
* In September 1861, a young African-American named Frederick was charged with rape. After an investigation in Cecilton, the Cecil Democrat, reported that he was “taken to a tree in the vicinity of the act and hung.”
- Lynching can be a great decision or a disastrous one. Any player needs to give careful thought about who to lynch based on the evidence available.
* Asking for attributes/abilities is considered metagaming. Although it's not wrong to metagame, it's highly frowned upon by the community. Players may also copy and paste said attributes/abilities from the Wikia or other sources. Thus, there's not much use to ask for said attributes/abilities.
* Is there substantial evidence against the accused player? If so, what is the evidence and how valid is it? If the evidence is good and the players giving evidence are trusted, go for the lynch. If the accuser claims to be a Sheriff, Investigator, etc. and are accused on Day 2, chances are they are an Executioner.
* Has the player who is being accused trying to cause trouble, or trying to accuse others based on little evidence? If so, be careful as this might be a Jester or Executioner, though, said player is possibly a member of the Mafia, Serial Killer, Arsonist, etc.
* Is the player presenting poor evidence in order to declare innocence? Then they are either a bad player in general, a Jester who is purposely trying to increase suspicion against themselves, or a member of the Mafia or Serial Killer who is trying in vain to defend themselves.
* Do they seem to give up or don't care if they die? They may be a Jester as they are simply biding time until they get lynched.
* How many members of the Mafia are left? If there are still at least three members of the Mafia alive, be careful as they could be pulling the strings of voting and deciding on the target being guilty or innocent.
* How fast are people voting? Typically, if a decent number of people vote immediately, they voted guilty. If this is happening often where 3 people consistently vote people up without substantial evidence, they may be cheaters or members of the Mafia. This can be a way to decide if you should abandon a fellow member of the Mafia or try to get him off the hook. These are some of the questions that you may have to consider when someone is being voted to be lynched. Always be critical at the start of the game in your assessment, as chances are a lynch in the first or second round won't include a lot of evidence. Sometimes, unconsidered voting turns into random lynching and players can be killed in the first or second trials. If you are very unsure about the decision to hang them, then abstain (don't vote) or just click innocent. Assessing who needs lynching and who doesn't is a hard thing to do, and you may get it wrong sometimes but knowing who to lynch is a skill that needs to be developed over time.
- I cannot believe how lynching was simply tolerated by our government for years, and how in the south it was often celebrated by large groups of whites. Lynching was a way white people like the Ku Klux Klan would threaten the black race. Lynching did not necessarily mean hanging. It often included humiliation, torture, burning, dismemberment, and castration. No white man was ever punished for lynching until 1915. There were 3,233 lynching, in one form or another in this country in the twenty-one years ending January 1, 1903. In some or many photos of lynching at the turn of the century, onlookers and even members of the mob can be seen smiling and grinning for the camera after the lynching. Black victims were hacked to death, dragged behind cars, burned, beaten, whipped, and even sometimes shot thousands of times. The most famous of these criminal acts was The Murder of Emmett Till. He was a young black boy from the south side of Chicago who was brutally lynched during the time of segregation. He apparently whistled at a white woman in Money, Mississippi when he was staying with his uncle’s and his cousins. After the lynching you couldn't tell it was him because his face was mutilated. - Walter Walker
- In 2153, at least one Skagaran was lynched this way. He was believed to have killed a man, which was considered a hanging offense for a Skagaran whether it was in self defense or not. His last words were, "Go to hell." Sheriff MacReady regretted that the man could not be brought to trial, although local school teacher Bethany argued that if he had been, the same people who had lynched him would have been in the jury. Captain Jonathan Archer, upon witnessing the aftermath of this lynching, remarked that the colony was an authentic representation of the Terran Ancient West society they were taken from, right down to the hangings. (ENT: "North Star")
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