Deaths in Custody
Executed

Perk Flowers

22 years old · died June 26, 1925 · Arkansas

Perk Flowers, a 22-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on June 26, 1925, while in state prison custody, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The department records the manner of death as homicide and the cause as execution. The source gives no further detail about the person or the case.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Arkansas Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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