Executed
Booker Martin
Booker Martin, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on September 2, 1927. He had been held in state custody, and the Arkansas Department of Corrections records his death as an execution. That department lists the manner of death as homicide, in its own account of the 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.