Executed
Paris
James P. Paris was hanged in Meridian, Mississippi, on April 25, 1904, according to the San Antonio Daily Light. Governor Vardaman had earlier acted to prevent a lynching of him, as the Perth Amboy Evening News reported the following day. That later report places the hanging in April 1904.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: newspaper report of the hanging.