Frontier justice
For other uses, see Frontier justice (disambiguation).
Frontier justice (also called vigilante justice[1] or street justice) is extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with justice.[2] The phrase can also be used to describe a prejudiced judge.[3] Lynching[2] and gunfighting are considered forms of frontier justice.[4][5]
Examples
United States
- March 20 to April 15, 1882: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday tracked and killed 4 cowboys said to be responsible for Morgan Earp's death, which would later become known as the Earp Vendetta Ride.[6]
- Late 1800s: A group of self-appointed lawmen called "stranglers" lynched around sixty horse and cattle rustlers along southwest North Dakota's Little Missouri River.[1]
Brazil
- April 1991: José Vicente Anunciação murdered a co-worker during a drunken knife-fight in Salvador, Bahia. Witnesses to the crime were not able to provide evidence in court. Anunciação was set free and then dragged from his bed at night by a mob of forty people who beat him to death with bricks and clubs. Previously, a mob of fifteen-hundred people stormed and set fire to the Paraná prison where Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes were being held for the murder of a taxi-cab driver.[7]
See also
- Citizen's arrest
- Gjakmarrja
- Jungle law
- List of feuds in the United States
- Ochlocracy
- Range war
- Rough music
- Vigilante
References
- 1 2 Kingseed, Wyatt. "Teddy Roosevelt's Frontier Justice." American History 36 (2002): 22-28.
- 1 2 Gonzales-Day, Ken. Lynching in the West: 1850-1935. London: Duke University Press, 2006.
- ↑ Bryant, Wilbur Franklin. The Blood of Abel. Gazette-Journal Company, 1887.
- ↑ Mullins, Jesse. "To Stand Your Ground." American Cowboy, May 1994
- ↑ Vanessa Holloway, "Getting Away With Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate" (Univ Press of America, 2014).
- ↑ "Wyatt Earp's Vendetta Posse". History.net. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Brazil's frontier justice". The Economist, April 27, 1991.
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