Deaths in Custody
Executed

Stephens

died August 1884 · Edgefield Courthouse, Edgefield County, South Carolina

A man named Stephens was hanged at the Edgefield Courthouse in Edgefield, South Carolina, in August 1884. A dispatch from Trenton, S.C., printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal, reported the execution. He was put to death by hanging in a judicial execution carried out in state custody.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Newspaper dispatch from Trenton, S.C. (reporters).

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