Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry Miller

died July 28, 1893 · Dallas County Jail, Dallas County, Texas

Henry Miller, a Black man, was hanged by the state in the stairway of the Dallas County Jail in Dallas, Texas, on July 28, 1893. He was a descendant of a man who had been lynched 33 years earlier. The death was an execution carried out while he was held in the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: The Dallas Morning News (reporters).

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