Executed

Harvey Deberry

Shelby County, Tennessee

Harvey Deberry, a Black man, was hanged at the jail in Memphis, Tennessee, according to the Perrysburg Journal, which reported it on August 28, 1897. The paper described the hanging as the first legal hanging of its kind in the state. This was a judicial execution carried out while Deberry was in the custody of the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: the newspaper report.

Source

Perrysburg Journal, August 28, 1897, page 2 Perrysburg Journal, August 28, 1897

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