Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Georgia

A man whose name is not known was held in a Georgia jail when a mob took him out and shot him to death. A Courier-Journal editorial published on June 30, 1905, listed him among seven people that mobs had taken from jails and killed. His death appears in that count, which the Louisville paper printed that summer.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Courier-Journal editorial (reporters).

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