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Lynching During the later half of the 19th century long into the 20th century lynching, became a popular form of capital punishment. Generally this torturous punishment was only reserved for the most vile of criminals, but during this particular time in our history being a specific ethnicity was the crime and lynching was often accompanied by sever beatings, and humiliating taunts issued by a leering crowd. The vast majority of victims were African Americans. Lynching usually occurred in the South, due to strong prejudice and still prevailing pressures of the post Civil-War Southern Reconstruction. African American became beast of burden to many Caucasian individuals. Whatever tribulation a town had (usually murder) the finger was generally pointed to someone of different ethnicity, even if that person had never committed a crime, for example, Laura Nelson. Laura’s only crime was trying to save her son, L.W. The accused would be placed under arrest and while awaiting their trails, they would be ripped from their cells by an