Executed
William Heard
William Heard was one of four men hanged at the Caldwell Parish prison in Louisiana on March 7, 1941. The executions were carried out at 30-minute intervals beginning at noon, with hundreds of people gathered outside and witnesses watching from the jail hallway. His death was among the last judicial hangings in Louisiana, according to the account this record is drawn from.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Caldwell Parish prison (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.