Deaths in Custody
Executed

Dr. Buchanan

Sing Sing, Oswego County, New York

Dr. Buchanan was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison in New York. Lawyers Colonel George W. Gibbons and A. H. Butts said they would keep pursuing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court as though the client were still alive. They said they might sue the state and the warden if the court ruled in their favor.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Sing Sing prison (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.

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