Gualberto Villarroel
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Gualberto Villarroel López was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th president of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Perón, he is nonetheless
Gualberto Villarroel
Portrait of Villarroel as president by Luis Walpher, 1954
President Gualberto Villarroel is lynched and hanged in Plaza Murillo, 21 July 1946
The newspaper Times-Picayune reports on the death of Villarroel, 22 July 1946
Lynching
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Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate othe
Gualberto Villarroel
…case, Villarroel died within the Palacio Quemado and his body was thrown through a window onto Ayacucho Street in the Plaza Murillo. Villarroel was then lynched in the street, his clothes torn and his mutilated, almost naked corpse hung on a lamp post. The same fates were found within the vicinity of the…
The lynching of African American William "Froggie" James in Cairo, Illinois, on November 11, 1909. A crowd of thousands watched the lynching.
Postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. The bodies of two of the accused men are still hanging while the body of the third accused man is lying on the ground.
September Massacres of 1792, in which Parisian mobs killed hundreds of royalist prisoners