Deaths in Custody
Executed

Aaron Harris

died January 8, 1926 · Arkansas

Aaron Harris, a Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on January 8, 1926, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide, and it places the death in state custody at a state prison. Sources for this record contain no family accounts or personal details about Mr. Harris, so the record cannot say who he was apart from the facts of his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Arkansas Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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