LAW OF THE NOOSE They were a rootless bunch, friendless and unwanted, shunned by everyone except each other. They were the Outcasts, a ragged group of men who made their own way through an unforgiving West, and who knew what it was to be hated. And who recognized injustice when they saw it. So when they saw an innocent black wrangler framed for a murder he didnt commit, it stuck in their craws. Some of the townspeople called the sham trial Black Justice. To the Outcasts it was just a legal excuse for a lynching. Either way, an innocent man had an appointment with the hangman find the real murderer in time.