Publication Date
7-5-2012
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small collection 443. Copies of legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.
Disciplines
Criminology | History | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Hagerman, Henry Thomas (SC 443)" (2012). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 2193.
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2193
Included in
Criminology Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, United States History Commons
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu