Kinda hard to hang someone against their will.
Not impossible but it takes multiple people which makes it hard to get away with because so many would know.
What ought not be lost is FACTS. If facts point one way and the public wants a different truth, then fomenting that will lead to anarchy as no one can use truth anymore to decide ANYTHING, it will be upon whim, emotion of the majority, ever-changing by a better marketing cluster.
What is Truth?
Sanity, security, peace.
If the coroner has questions now, he ought be fired for poor professionalism then, or now, if all of the facts were available to him.
So back in the day, no one was actually lynched? Just a lot of random suicides?