Any officer - state, county or municipal - who, through negligence or connivance, permits a prisoner to be seized and lynched, forfeits his office and becomes ineligible to hold any office of trust or profit in the state unless pardoned by the governor.
Both criminals were almost lynched by the infuriated crowds.
In 1892 Church's friend, Tom Moss, a grocer from Memphis, was lynched by a white mob.
Just tell her not to mention it at the ante-natal clinic, she'll get lynched!
Moved to England, my family nearly lynched me!
On the 14th of March 1891 a mob broke into the jail and lynched eleven of the accused.
The county in which the crime occurs is, without regard to the conduct of the officers, liable in damages of not less than $2000 to the legal representative of the person lynched; the county is authorized, however, to recover this amount from the persons engaged in the lynching.
There were 15 blacks lynched in 1918, 78 in 1919.
They executed captured commandos and paratroopers and protected civilians who lynched Allied flyers.