Executed
Ira O. Jenkins
Ira O. Jenkins was executed by judicial hanging in Bismarck on September 14, 1900. He was hanged on an enclosed scaffold built like the one used for James Cole about eighteen months earlier. Jenkins went to the scaffold protesting his innocence. Reporters described his last hours in detail at the time.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Jenkins protested his innocence as he went to the scaffold, according to newspaper accounts of his execution.
Reported by: newspaper accounts of his last hours.