Deaths in Custody
Executed

Albert Jones

died June 9, 1926 · Arkansas

Albert Jones, a Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on June 9, 1926, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections execution record. He was held in state custody under a sentence when he died. The department's record gives the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide, the state's own classification of a judicial killing.

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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