This paper provides a unified approach for achieving and analyzing global synchronization of a class of master-slave coupled multiscroll chaotic systems under linear state-error feedback control. A general mathematical model for such a class of multiscroll chaotic systems is first established. Based on some special properties of such systems, two less-conservative frequency-domain criteria for the desirable global synchronization are rigorously proven by means of the absolute stability theory. The analysis is then applied to two master-slave coupled modified Chua's circuits, obtaining the corresponding simple and precise algebraic criteria for global synchronization, which are finally verified by numerical simulations.