Executed
Aaron Long
Aaron Long was held in the jail on the alley behind the Woodmen building on Fifteenth Street in Davenport, Iowa, in October 1843. A 1908 account in the Rock Island Argus says he was hanged on the same scaffold as two other men, with the sheriff escorting the condemned men to the trap together. The sheriff's office gave hanging as the cause of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Davenport sheriff (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.