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Public offense isn't broad at all. Nice try though, you think I wouldn't verify your posts?
public offense = a term that is used to describe the conduct that is in violation of existing laws and is punishable by laws.
What is PUBLIC OFFENSE? definition of PUBLIC OFFENSE (Black's Law Dictionary)
lynching refers to someone accused of legal crime be it by a formal or informal group, and then executed without any due process.
It certainly includes that definition, but there is no need for it to be a "legal crime." Read that federal definition again - "actual or supposed public offense." Blacks were lynched for real and imagined 'crimes.' Do you really think when the KKK strung a black man up on an oak branch that we'd call it one thing if he was accused of rape and another if the 'crime' was holding hands with a white woman (non-crime) or working to get blacks the opportunity to vote (non-crime). Of course not - they'd both be lynchings. Everyone but you accepts this. Besides, there's a very good chance "rape" in that era would include any sexual relations with a white woman, which was as made up a "crime" as the others.