Executed
Sam Derrick
Sam Derrick, a 30-year-old man, was executed by the State of Arkansas on July 28, 1915, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the cause as execution and the manner as homicide, its own classification of a judicial killing. No objections to the execution are recorded in this account.
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.