Executed
Name not reported
A Black man whose name the newspaper did not record was hanged at Mayersville in January 1907. The Mountain Echo reported that he was put to death three minutes before word arrived that his sentence had been commuted. The account gives no other details about him, and the question of whether the commutation should have reached Mayersville in time is not addressed in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the newspaper's account of the hanging at Mayersville (reporters).