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I was using a broader definition of lynching to mean any punishment meted out by popular opinion rather than proper processes.

If Violentacrez deserved to be 'punished', then whatever punishment was meted out should have fallen exclusively on him.

Their respective employers meted out not very compassionate punishments, those companies come off badly in the article.

This same behavior happens on every site where authority is meted out based on activity, not ability.

What is the limit to the consequences that can be meted out because of your free expression?

For the next century, political violence was visited upon blacks wantonly, with special treatment meted out toward black people of ambition.

Crucified is the disgusting fate meted out to some people in Syria and Irak.

Do these real people agree with the punishment meted out to the gentlemen I listed above?

Death threats are regularly meted out over FAR more inconsequential things.

If there was wrong here, I'd want justice meted out to the wrongful party.

HN is extremely supportive of the mob justice meted out on uppity black women, and there are numerous supportive comments in this story thread to that effect.

The poor people who passively take the punishment meted out to them have learned over a long, painful period that standing out and resisting gets them problems.

Administrative punishments should only be meted out for administrative "crimes" (cheating, violating housing agreements, etc) that have no corresponding crime in the criminal code.

Before then "prisons" were more or less temporary affairs, usually just a makeshift holding chamber where people were kept before the actual punishment was meted out (death, torture, or mutilation).