Executed
Lincoln Sprolo
Lincoln Sprolo was hanged at the Fort Smith jail on July 23, 1886. A news report in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette says he slept well the night before, ate a hearty breakfast, and spent the morning talking with people held in the jail. Before he was taken to the gallows, he said farewell to them, and several of them wept. The newspaper reported that both of his necks were broken by the hanging.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Fort Smith jail (held Sprolo before the hanging) (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.