Everyone knows about lynching. Today we shudder at the memories of this shameful page of the past. However, today, more than a century later, we can compare lynching to the death penalty... There is evidence that lynching often involved judges, mayors and sheriffs of small towns, along with violent mobs... Often lynchings were advertised in newspapers prior to the event in order to attract photographers and revenge-driven people. All of this was more like entertainment rather than justice. In the 1900s, postcards were sold depicting happy people next to the victims of lynching. They sent them to their relatives with comments, e.g. “Mom, my picture is to the left...