Executed
Name not reported
A man was hanged at Georgetown, Delaware, on June 11, 1897, in a judicial execution. According to a newspaper report, he protested his innocence on the scaffold and said that newspaper coverage had led people to think ill of him. He was executed by the state, and his claims of innocence were made in his own words at the end.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. He protested his innocence on the scaffold, according to the newspaper account.
Reported by: newspaper account of the execution.