Deaths in Custody
Executed

Buble Clayton

21 years old · died June 30, 1939 · Arkansas

Buble Clayton, a 21-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on June 30, 1939, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the manner of death as homicide and the cause as execution. The source gives no details of his life or family, and it reports no objections to the execution.

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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