Executed
Name not reported
A Black man held in Wayne County, North Carolina, was put to death in the state's electric chair, according to a Hickory Daily Record report published November 19, 1921. The report says that while he and another man were being returned to Wayne County for trial, a crowd tried to seize them from custody to lynch them. The other man's clemency petition was still pending at the time of the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: State of North Carolina.