"Well," he said after a long pause, "Marion is one of the last places there was a public lynching of black folks."

"Until they have a public lynching," he said.

It is said to have been the last public lynching in California.

It is also notable as the last public lynching in California's history.

Children often attended these public lynchings.

A child pornographer, she declares, deserves nothing less than a public lynching.

Hays' social conscience was ignited when at age five he witnessed public lynchings of African-Americans.

The actual double-hanging was urged to be done hastily due to the threat of a public lynching by friends and relatives of Bryan.

There had been several public lynchings of suspected traitors in Montana and Appalachia.

All we see are individual lives chewed up and spit out by morally rudderless public lynchings.