In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120806379.html

on Sept. 21, the kidnappings stopped.

That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo’s seafood restaurant and tried to abduct the 17-year-old cashier. A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.