Executed
Name not reported
A man was hanged in a judicial execution at Joliet, Illinois, on January 21, 1876, according to a news item in the Knoxville Journal published February 3, 1876. The scanned page is garbled, so his name and other details cannot be recovered. The item reports only that the hanging took place, and gives no account of his life or of any objections to the sentence.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: news reporting in a historical newspaper column.