Leo Roderick Bernard Hall
Leo Roderick Bernard Hall, 34, was executed by hanging at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. According to HistoryLink, the execution took place on the evening of September 11, 1936, before more than 100 witnesses, the largest crowd ever to see one at that prison. HistoryLink reports that he protested his innocence and that his appeals for a new trial were denied. The Washington State Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the State of Washington.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Hall protested his innocence and his appeals for a new trial were denied.
Reported by: Washington State Penitentiary (the agency that held him); Washington State Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.