Executed
Fred Adams
Fred Adams, 22, was executed by hanging on April 2, 1937, at the Dunklin County Jail in Kennett, Missouri, where he was held. Witnesses said he was neatly dressed and freshly shaven, walked to the scaffold without assistance, and smiled and waved to the crowd before the sheriff closed the window. Sheriff G. D. Miles sprang the trap before a crowd of about 1,000 people holding passes, and Coroner G. I. Gilmore and two doctors pronounced him dead about twelve minutes later. His execution had been postponed four times before that date.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Coroner G. I. Gilmore (medical examiner or coroner); Sheriff G. D. Miles (the agency that held him).