Deaths in Custody
Executed

Centry Butler

Sumter County, South Carolina

Gentry Butler was put to death by hanging at Sumter, South Carolina, in a judicial execution carried out while he was in state custody. One account says he was hanged on a double gallows together with another man. Accounts of the execution give no further details about the man himself.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: news reports.

News reports (2)