someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another
person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed
"frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horsethieves, rustlers and shooters,
and then promptly hanging the accused if "convicted. " A mother who shoots the alleged
molester of her child is a vigilante.
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