Executed
Joseph Nicely
Joseph Nicely, of Ligonier Township in Westmoreland County, was one of two brothers hanged at the old Somerset County Jail, according to a 2014 Daily American article. The jail had a double gallows, and the article's account places his death there as an execution. The article gives no date for the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: newspaper article on the double hanging at the old Somerset County Jail (reporters).