Died in custody
Jim Buchanan
Jim Buchanan, a Black man, was held in Nacogdoches, Texas. According to the Richmond Planet, in October 1902 a mob surrounded the sheriff after a verdict in his case, and court officials allowed the usual thirty-day wait before execution to be waived. Within about two hours, the mob hanged him from a hastily built scaffold. The Richmond Planet described the killing as a judicial lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Richmond Planet reported that a mob took Jim Buchanan from custody after his trial and hanged him from a hastily built scaffold, calling it a judicial lynching.
Reported by: Richmond Planet (reporters).