No. “Lynching” is the execution of an individual for a real or false crime by a group acting without judicial sanction. Death can be by hanging, shooting, burning, drowning, bludgeoning, dragging, stabbing, cutting, etc. Sherrod’s usage is not colloquial, but Jeffery Lord's is. This may be from watching a lot of Westerns.
No. “Lynching” is the execution of an individual for a real or false crime by a group acting without judicial sanction.>>>>>>>
The sheriff and three civilians beat the man to death. There is no judicial sanction there plus the sheriff looks like part of a lynch mob to me. A small lynch mob but with 3,000 lynching (of white, black and Indian) in our history I’m sure there have been other small lynch mobs too