Wilkes County Executions

NAME	AGE	RACE	SEX	OCCUPATION	CRIME	METHOD	DATE			MTPL	COUNTY
Stone, Bryant	44	White	Male	Farmer	Murder	Electrocution	Sep	8	1933		WILKES
Hightower, Walter	32	Black	Male	Convict	Murder	Asphyxiation-Gas	Feb	15	1946		WILKES
Horton, Richard		Black	Male	?	Murder-Robbery	Asphyxiation-Gas	Apr	4	1947		WILKES
Bell, Marvin	33	White	Male	?	Rape	Asphyxiation-Gas	Nov	14	1947	1	WILKES
Letteral, Ralph	35	White	Male	?	Rape	Asphyxiation-Gas	Nov	14	1947	3	WILKES

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This page was developed from the data file "Executions in the United States, 1608-1987: The ESPY File", Espy, M. Watt, and John Ortiz Smykla, Principal Investigators. Funded by the National Science Foundation. This dataset represents the most complete list of executions in the United States compiled to date

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