Executed
Frank Atkinson
Frank Atkinson was hanged at the Lauderdale County jailhouse in Meridian in July 1924, one of two men executed together there, which a Meridian Star article describes as only the second such double execution in Mississippi. The article says that on the morning of his execution he spent time with his wife and children, and that he asked to be baptized in the jailhouse bathtub. He is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery. The article recounts his final words before he died at 2:28 p.m.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the 1924 newspaper account of the Lauderdale County hanging (reporters).