Executed
Alexander Jefferson
Alexander Jefferson was hanged on the morning of August 1, 1884, in New York, according to a dispatch datelined New York and printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal the next day. The short report gives no further details about who he was or where he was held. It is an execution, and the account names hanging as the method but does not record any objections to it.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: news reports.