Executed
James Marshall Alexander
Hours before his execution, a cousin and six boyhood friends from Emory, Texas, arrived in Homer with a casket, intending to take James Marshall Alexander's body home to his aged mother. Louisiana hanged him at the Claiborne Parish jail in Homer on April 11, 1924, following a trial. Earlier, a mob had broken into the jail looking for him but did not find him. Shortly before the set hour he collapsed, and he was carried from his cell to the scaffold while semi-conscious.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Claiborne Parish Jail (legal execution after trial) (the agency that held him); news reports of the 1924 hanging (reporters).