Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Alabama

A Black man held in an Alabama jail was taken from it by masked men and hanged in 1882, according to a newspaper account. A second man who had been held in the same jail was hanged alongside him. Both men were killed by the same masked group that took them from the jail.

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

News report