In Mississippi burning, it showcases blacks being lynched by Ku Klux Klan. But what exactly is lynching?
Lynching is a "punishment" in which the blacks got. The form of 'punishment' is usually hanging, even though other forms include shooting and burning. In Mississippi burning, the Ku Klux Klan used hanging. As a result, they lynched a total of 3,500 blacks. This demonstrates how great the impact of lynching was.
Obviously, lynching is wrong. The blacks did not do anything wrong, so what did they to let them to be deserved to be 'punished'? Plus, hanging is equivalent to a death sentence. I believe that capital punishment should only be reserved for serious crimes like attempted murder and so on. Also, in the first place, no crime was committed. Secondly, these 'punishments' were not official, and thus the Ku Klux Klan did not have any right or permission to lynch people just because they look different from the others.
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