Executed
Name not reported
A 20-year-old Black man was hanged in Warrenton, Georgia, before a crowd of onlookers. The Nebraska Advertiser reported that as he climbed the platform he began singing a camp-meeting hymn with the other condemned man. The two were still singing when the trap was sprung. The account appeared in a Nebraska newspaper in November 1895.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state