Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jack Buster

20 years old · died June 26, 1925 · Arkansas

Jack Buster, a 20-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on June 26, 1925. He was in the custody of the state prison system when he died. The Arkansas Department of Corrections records his manner of death as homicide, with execution as the cause.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Arkansas Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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