Executed
James Douglas Latham
James Douglas Latham was executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, in June 1965. A Kansas City Star article published in May 2025 identifies him as one of the final people executed at the Lansing prison. The state carried out the execution by hanging, the method recorded for his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Kansas State Penitentiary (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.