Executed
Hooker T. Williams
Booker Williams, who was Black and listed at age 19 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, was executed in the electric chair at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, on April 4, 1924, according to that agency's record. A 1924 Associated Press account, carried by the Brownsville Herald and naming him Hooker T. Williams, reports that he went to his death calm and with a prayer on his lips, and that the sheriff of Lufkin witnessed the execution. The two sources give different names for him, and only the agency record gives his age.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him); Associated Press (reporters).