Executed
J. C. Jones
J. C. Jones was hanged in Georgia on May 18, 1883, before a large crowd, after the governor ordered the sheriff to carry out the sentence. According to the Memphis Daily Appeal, the day before his execution he cut the veins in his arms in an attempt to take his own life while held at the jail, and lost about a gallon of blood. The paper reports that he talked with a reporter as he was taken from the jail to a gallows about a mile from the courthouse, and went up to the scaffold with great composure. The paper gives the time of the drop as 2:30.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: news reports.