Deaths in Custody
Executed

Name not reported

died June 1882 · Powhatan Courthouse Holding Facility, Powhatan County, Virginia

A Black man, whose name the source does not give, was executed at Powhatan Court-house in Powhatan County, Virginia, in June 1882, according to a brief notice in The Panola Weekly Star of June 17, 1882. The notice reports the execution in a single line, alongside another execution in Brownsville, and says nothing about his age, family, or the proceedings in his case.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

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