Executed

Name not reported

died January 1907 · Issaquena County, Mississippi

A Black man was hanged by the state at Mayersville, Mississippi, in January 1907. A year-end chronology printed in The Mena Weekly Star in January 1908 reported that the hanging took place three minutes before word arrived that the sentence had been commuted.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: year-end chronology.

News report

The Mena Weekly Star, January 9, 1908, page 6 The Mena Weekly Star, January 9, 1908

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