Hanging judge
"Hanging judge" is a colloquial phrase for a
lynch law
.
Historical examples
17th century
19th century
- Matthew Baillie Begbie, Vancouver and Victoria judge[4]
- Isaac C. Parker, U.S. district judge[5]
20th century
- Nikolai Krylenko, Bolshevik revolutionary, prosecutor, and Minister of Justice of the USSR
- Roland Freisler, president (presiding judge) of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof[6] (d. 3 February 1945)
- Moscow Show Trials during the Great Purge
- Lord Chief Justice of England
- Roman Kryże, Polish judge at communist political trials, including that of Witold Pilecki[7] and the Warsaw meat affair. His harsh rulings gave rise to the saying "Kryże is judging – there will be crosses" (Polish: sądzi Kryże – będą krzyże).[8]
- Sadegh Khalkhali, Shia cleric of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Choor Singh, judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- Ebrahim Raisi, eighth president of Iran, in his earlier role in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners
Cultural references
- A character in the Bob Dylan song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" (album: Blood on the Tracks)
- Justice Wargrave in Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None
- The Hanging Judge, a 1918 film directed by Henry Edwards
- A track on the 1991 Armored Saint album Symbol of Salvation
- Justice Sir Francis Brittain in Bruce Hamilton's 1949 novel Hanging Judge; the novel was adapted for the stage by Raymond Massey in 1952, and Boris Karloff played Justice Brittain in the BBC Radio adaptation of the play in 1953.[9]
- Critic Stanley Crouch's 1990 essay collection entitled Notes of a Hanging Judge
References
- ^ Tyler Bryant, Ruth. "George Jeffreys, first Baron Jeffreys of Wem". Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Collection: Chief Justice George Jeffreys. University of Georgia School of Law. Archived from the original on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ Adams, Gavin John (2012). Letters to John Law. Newton Page. pp. xiv, xxi, liii. ISBN 978-1934619087.
- ^ "www.courts.ie". Archived from the original on 17 August 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- ISBN 978-0-8882-6068-0.
- ^ National Park Service. "Judge Isaac C. Parker". National Park Service. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
Remembered in Western novels and films as a "Hanging Judge"
- ^ Knopp, Guido (2002). "4, "The Hanging Judge"". Hitler's Hitmen. United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing.
- ^ Wygoda, Agnieszka. "Wyrok na Witolda Pileckiego". Institute of National Remembrance (Poland). Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ^ "Afera mięsna: złamane życie dziesięciu warszawskich rodzin". Rzeczpospolita. 16 June 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ^ "Raymond Massey - Hanging Judge - BBC Sounds". Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
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