Died in jail or a lockup
Jack Turner
Jack Turner, a Black man, was held in the Butler jail in Choctaw County, Alabama, in August 1882. According to a report reprinted from a Meridian newspaper, a crowd of white men took him from the jail in the middle of the day and hanged him from a tree on the town's main street. The same report says other men held in the jail were spared.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of white men took Jack Turner from the Butler jail and hanged him from a tree on the main street, according to a Meridian dispatch reprinted in a white newspaper that approved of the killing.
Reported by: news reports.