Executed
Floyd Boyce
Floyd Boyce was hanged at the Caldwell Parish prison in Louisiana on March 7, 1941, one of four men executed that day. The executions were held at 30-minute intervals starting at noon, with hundreds of people gathered outside and witnesses watching from the jail hallway. A 2015 FOX 8 Local First article describes these as the last judicial hangings in Louisiana.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Caldwell Parish prison (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.