Recently, I a couple questions about lynch mobs in the old west hanging a man or men for a crime.  When the lynch mob caught the man or men accused of the crime and sentenced the man or men to hang by a noose until dead, was it true that they would take the individual's boots off his feet and if so, why did they take the man's boots off before hanging him and did they also take the man's socks as well?  I am just curious to know why lynch mobs would do that, if true. The question comes fro


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