Deaths in Custody
Executed

Albert Hodges

34 years old · died January 17, 1947 · Arkansas

Albert Hodges, a 34-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on January 17, 1947, while in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, according to that agency. The record gives no facility name, and it contains no details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case. The agency's records list the cause of death as an execution, and no objections to the execution are recorded in the source.

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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