Executed
Hampton Gholson
Hampton Gholson was executed by the State of Tennessee at Tennessee State Prison in Nashville on August 17, 1921, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. The Chicago Whip reported that he was one of three men electrocuted in Nashville that week, and that as he died he breathed a prayer for the children of a Memphis jeweler. The paper's account gives the date only as the week before its report of August 27, 1921. The prison department's record gives the cause of death as execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Tennessee Department of Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.