Executed
Will Catling
Will Catling, a Black man, was hanged at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, in a judicial execution reported in a brief roundup in the Potosi Journal on February 11, 1903. As a judicial execution, the hanging was carried out by the state while he was in its custody. The state carried out his death by hanging, and this record names him as the man it put to death.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state