Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people were being held in the jail at Russellville, Kentucky, in July 1908. A mob took them from the jail and hanged them from a tree at the edge of town. Their deaths were a lynching carried out by people who came for them from the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.