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Dock Mays

Name:: Dock Mays
Record Type:: Documented
Espy File Record:: false
State:: Alabama
Date Execution:: 1901-05-06
Race:: Black
Crime Convicted of:: Other
Enslaved:: false
Compensation Case:: false
Execution Method:: Hanging
Jurisdiction:: Extrajudicial
County:: Dallas
County FIPS Code:: 01047
Notes:: Lynched for "sheltering a murderer"
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