Whenever I watch a crime drama, I know that they are going to use puns to make light of dark situations and use high tech gear to solve crimes. I also know that at the end of the episode the assailant is going to be locked up by the law enforcement for the crime that they have committed. But what if their investigations were inaccurate? What if they were corrupt by outlandish ideas? What happens if the people with higher authorities decide to do something inconceivable? In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “The Lynching of Jube Benson”, it was the raw emotions of Dr. Melville that lead to the death of Jube Benson. For some time now emotion as opposed to logic and reasoning has dominated the justice system. “The Lynching of Jube Benson” accurately mirrors