Talk:Hanging in the United States

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New Hampshire or Delaware?

In one place the article says hanging is theoretically legal in "Washington and Delaware", in another place, in "Washington and New Hampshire". Which is correct? Please fix! -- 92.226.101.89 (talk) 23:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved as part of my citation clean-up and partial copy-editing. The wording had changed between 2012 and 2020, and I improved further with information from references. — Molly-in-md (talk) 15:07, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thousands of individuals were not hanged for witchcraft throughout the American colonies!

The wild claim that "modern scholars maintain that thousands of individuals were hanged for witchcraft throughout the American colonies", with only one link (and no page number given) cited, is the reason I just signed up for Wikipedia. BetweenUandMe95 (talk) 02:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

criminals lynched(?)

I think the current description of lynching doesn’t accurately describe who were the majority victims of lynching. “Criminals” is only implicitly tied to the fact that after reconstruction ended in the south, many places became effectively lawless with regards to the murder of Black people/ families, White allies, and also the small percent of victims who were Chinese American and immigrants from other parts of the world. It certainly deserves a subsection of its own in this page, but to leave out these details dissolves the uniqueness of the two historical circumstances known as “lynching” and “Hanging in the United States.” It’s an injustice to the thousands of victims to even bring up criminality here. Genghisbongsmongolianbbq (talk) 17:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]