Keywords
extralegal punishment, nineteenth-century, culture of violence
Abstract
Some people have suggested a strain of violence within nineteenth- century Latter-day Saint culture as violent as and perhaps more so than that of most Americans around them. Critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints point to a few well-known acts of extralegal violence as evidence of a culture of violence that permeated the early Church. But were these examples of violence really out of the norm of nineteenth-century American society? This article looks at examples of extralegal punishment for certain crimes, placing them and the examples of extralegal punishment in Utah within a greater historical and cultural context.
Recommended Citation
Foster, Craig L.
(2020)
"Death to Seducers! Examples of Latter-day Saint-led Extralegal Justice in Historical Context,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 36, Article 15.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol36/iss1/15
