Executed
Name not reported
A brief dispatch in the Daily Kennebec Journal, published March 18, 1879, reported that a man named Pinkham was executed. The paper said that his brain was removed immediately afterward and found to be of good average weight and in a healthy condition. The place and exact date of the execution cannot be read in the surviving text.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: historical newspaper dispatch.