Executed
Name not reported
A person whose name is illegible in the surviving newspaper text was hanged at Little Rock, Arkansas, on August 17, 1883, in a judicial execution. The Iowa Plain Dealer reported it on August 23, 1883, listing it among three executions carried out across the South that day. As a sentence carried out by the state, the hanging ended this person's life while they were in state custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state