Executed
John R. Stanley
John R. Stanley was hanged on December 22, 1894, at Maynardville, Union County, Tennessee, inside a stockade the sheriff had built because state law required executions to be held in private. According to the New-York Tribune, about four thousand people gathered in town, and a crowd pushed down the stockade walls during the hanging. The paper reports that he died by strangulation within about fifteen minutes and made a full confession before his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the newspaper account of the hanging.