Walmsley
Amasa Walmsley was taken from the Providence jail and hanged in June 1832 at a site about two miles from the center of the city, after the state carried out his execution. The Herald of the Times reports that for weeks before the execution he knew it was inevitable and that his conduct to the last moment was marked by great firmness and resignation. The paper says he died with scarcely a struggle, that a crowd of nearly 10,000 watched in silence, and that the sheriff carried out the hanging with a physician and clergyman present. The Rhode Island American and Gazette reports that his body was given to surgeons for galvanic experiments about an hour after death, with his consent.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: newspaper accounts of the execution.