Editing Death by burning (section)

===Lynchings and killings by burning in the United States===

[[File:Lynching of Jesse Washington, 1916 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[Lynching of Jesse Washington]] in [[Waco, Texas]], on 15 May 1916. He was repeatedly lowered and raised onto a fire for about two hours.]]
Burnings continued as a method of [[lynching in the United States]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in the [[Southern United States|South]]. One of the most notorious extrajudicial burnings in modern history occurred in [[Waco, Texas]] on 15 May 1916. [[Jesse Washington lynching|Jesse Washington]], an African-American [[farmhand]], after having been convicted of the rape and subsequent murder of a white woman, was taken by a mob to a bonfire, castrated, doused in [[coal oil]], and hanged by the neck from a chain over the bonfire, slowly burning to death. A postcard from the event still exists, showing a crowd standing next to Washington's charred corpse with the words on the back "This is the barbecue we had last night. My picture is to the left with a cross over it. Your son, Joe". This attracted international condemnation and is remembered as the "[[Waco Horror]]".<ref>''DuBois'' (1916), [http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1292363091648500.pdf pp. 1–8] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131227153035/http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1292363091648500.pdf Archive])</ref><ref>[[Wade Goodwyn|Goodwyn, Wade]]. "[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5401868 Waco Recalls a 90-Year-Old 'Horror']." ''[[National Public Radio]]''. 13 May 2006. ([https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5401868 Transcript of radio story])</ref>

More recently, during the 1980 [[New Mexico State Penitentiary riot]], a number of inmates were burnt to death by fellow prisoners, who threw flammable liquids into locked cells and ignited the fuel using [[blowtorch]]es.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/72933NCJRS.pdf |title=Report of the Attorney General on the February 2 and 3, 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico |last=Bingaman |first=Jeff |date=June 1980 |publisher=State of New Mexico Office of the Attorney General |page=26 |author-link=Jeff Bingaman }}</ref>