Executed
John Webb
John Webb, who was Black, was hanged at Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 13, 1875, according to a roundup published in the Jasper Weekly Courier on August 27, 1875. The paper listed Webb as one of five people it reported hanged that day in several Southern and Western places. The roundup names no facility and gives no account of the hanging from officials, family, or anyone who witnessed it.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state