Deaths in Custody
Executed

Name not reported

died November 20, 1908 · Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Lewis Fletcher, a Black man, was hanged at Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 20, 1908, according to a news report in The Robesonian. The report places the execution on a Friday in November 1908 and gives the hanging as the cause. The facility where the execution was carried out is not named.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: news report.

News report