Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a CBS News report published in July 2000, eight masked men took a Black man from a county prison in Mississippi and hanged him in 1960. He was being held in that prison when the mob came for him and took him from custody. The prison staff who held him are the ones responsible for him while he was in their custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.