Frontier justice
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For the television series, see Frontier Justice (TV series).
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]
Examples
Armenia
- Operation Nemesis was the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's code-name for a covert operation in early 1920s to assassinate the Turkish planners of the Armenian Genocide.[5]
United States
- 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: Jose Vicent Anunciacao murdered a coworker during a drunken knife-fight in Salvador. Witnesses to the crime were not able to provide evidence in court. Anunciacao 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 Parana prison where Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes were being held for the murder of a taxi-cab driver.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kingseed, Wyatt. "Teddy Roosevelt's Frontier Justice." American History 36 (2002): 22-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ Derogy, Jacques (1990). Resistance and revenge: the Armenian assassination of the Turkish leaders responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportations. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412833165.
- ↑ "Brazil's frontier justice." The Economist, April 27, 1991.
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