Executed
Gentry Butler
Gentry Butler was executed by hanging at Sumter, South Carolina, in a judicial execution. A brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal of April 17, 1891, reported the hanging. The account is short and does not describe the person beyond the name and the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: brief news note on the execution at Sumter, South Carolina (reporters).