Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — EXECUTIONS IN 1882. [ARTICLE]

EXECUTIONS IN 1882.

During the year 1882 114 murderers were executed in the United States The hangman, as usual, was kept busiest in the Southern States, which furnished seventy-eight of the victims, while thirty-six were executed in the Northern States and Territories. South Carolina and Georgia head the list with ten each, closely followed bv Louisiana and Tennessee with eight victims each, Texas and Missouri coming next with seven each. Of the five credited to the Indian Territory, two were shot, the culprits choosing this death in preference to the more ignominious one of hanging. The record is as follows: South Carolina 10! Arkansas.. i Georgia 1 iVi-ginia ..’.’J 3 Tennessee B|Mississippl 3 ’!exas "lAlabami 3 Louisiana Bil l rida 3 Missouri " Dakota Terri ocy..”’ 3 North Caro ina 6|Calit-rnia 3 Pennsvivania «lConnecticut........ 1" 1 >ew York sjDelaßvare ..” 1 Ke tuckv 6 New Jersey.... 1 Indian Territory 6iColora-.io 1 Arizona Territory.... f Nevada 1 Illinois 41 Washington Territory 1 T0ta1....'. m