The so-called D.C. Madam said in suicide notes that she would not go to prison for what she called “a modern day lynching,” and that she was at peace with her decision to end her life.

The notes were written days after Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted by a D.C. jury on charges that she ran a high-class prostitution ring in the Washington area. She was found dead Thursday hanging in a shed at her mother’s Tarpon Springs, Fla., home.