At the turn of the 20^th Century annual lynching deaths reached their national peak in the United States. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) defines lynching as “the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. In response to this drastic and violent rise, many states passed anti-lynching laws. My work compiled these laws, then ran them through the text-reuse program Passim to detect text reuse between state laws. My work identifies a lineage of similarities and differences between the laws over time, showing state legislatures were interested in and attempted to stop lynching violence, and sought a variety of means to do so.