| But federal investigations into lynchings could only concentrate on trying to prove that the lynchers had violated their victims' civil rights. |
| Human-rights groups lack the resources to investigate or even record more than a handful of lynchings. |
| The lynching is a composite of numerous lynchings and violence against Negroes in the area in those years and years to follow. |
| But it's not quite on a par with the lynchings, floggings and threatened executions of Pakistan. |
| Corruption and mistreatment of prisoners are cited, as are reports of mob violence, lynchings and the killing of suspected witches. |
| This result, unforeseen and unanticipated, led to the day's stonings and near lynchings of Chinese laundrymen unconnected to the alleged crimes. |
