Executed
Williams Landers
Williams Landers was hanged at the Caldwell Parish prison in Louisiana on March 7, 1941, in a judicial execution. He was one of four men put to death that day, with the hangings held at 30-minute intervals beginning at noon. Hundreds of people gathered outside the jail, and witnesses watched from the jail hallway. A later report describes these as the last judicial hangings in Louisiana.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: news reports.