Executed
Richard Hawes
Richard Hawes was held in the jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in February 1890. A large crowd tried to storm the jail to lynch him, and the sheriff and a posse defended the building, with several people in the crowd killed. Hawes was hanged in late February 1890. On the gallows, he said that another man had done the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state