frontier justice
{{Short description|Extrajudicial punishment}}
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Frontier justice is extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with judicial punishment.{{cite book |last=Gonzales-Day |first=Ken |title=Lynching in the West: 1850–1935 |location=London |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2006 |isbn=0822337940 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Brtdets-U0kC&pg=PA42 }} The phrase can also be used to describe a prejudiced judge.{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Wilbur Franklin |title=The Blood of Abel |publisher=Gazette-Journal Company |year=1887 |url=https://archive.org/details/bloodabel00goog |page=[https://archive.org/details/bloodabel00goog/page/n106 100] }} Lynching, vigilantism and gunfighting are considered forms of frontier justice.{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uoCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36 |last=Mullins |first=Jesse |title=To Stand Your Ground |journal=American Cowboy |date=May 1994 }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/wyatt-earps-vendetta-posse.htm/1|title=Wyatt Earp's Vendetta Posse|access-date=April 26, 2014|publisher=History.net|archive-date=October 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005161307/http://www.historynet.com/wyatt-earps-vendetta-posse.htm/1|url-status=dead}}
- Late 1800s: A group of self-appointed lawmen called "stranglers" lynched around sixty horse rustlers and cattle rustlers along southwest North Dakota's Little Missouri River.{{cite journal |last=Kingseed |first=Wyatt |title=Teddy Roosevelt's Frontier Justice |journal=American History |volume=36 |year=2002 |pages=22–28 }}
= 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 1,500 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.{{cite news |title=Brazil's frontier justice |newspaper=The Economist |date=April 27, 1991 }}
See also
References
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