Note 46 — Chapter IV · THE LYNCHING OF NEGROES—ITS CAUSE AND ITS PREVENTION[39]
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The following table is from the Chicago Tribune. The number of legal executions in 1900 was 118, as compared with 131 in 1899, 109 in 1898, 128 in 1897, 122 in 1896, 132 in 1895, 132 in 1894, 126 in 1893, and 107 in 1892. The executions in the several States and Territories were in 1900 as follows:
Alabama 4 New York 3
Arkansas 0 Nevada 0
California 5 North Carolina 9
Colorado 0 North Dakota 1
Connecticut 1 Ohio 1
Delaware 0 Oregon 1
Florida 1 Pennsylvania 15
Georgia 14 Rhode Island 0
Idaho 2 South Carolina 3
Illinois 0 South Dakota 0
Indiana 0 Tennessee 4
Iowa 0 Texas 18
Kansas 0 Vermont 0
Kentucky 0 Virginia 7
Louisiana 6 West Virginia 0
Maine 0 Wisconsin 0
Maryland 3 Wyoming 0
Massachusetts 0 Washington 2
Michigan 0 Arizona 4
Minnesota 0 District of Columbia 3
Mississippi 1 New Mexico 0
Missouri 3 Utah 0
Montana 3 Indian Territory 0
Nebraska 0 Oklahoma 0
New Jersey 4 Alaska 0
New Hampshire 0
There were 80 hanged in the South and 39 in the North, of whom 60 were whites, 58 were blacks, and one a Chinaman. The crimes for which they were executed were: murder, 113; rape, 5; arson, 1. Thus, of the 119 hangings, about two-thirds (80) were in the South and one-third (39) in the North; about one-half (60) of the entire number were of whites, and one-half (58) were of blacks. So, the South appears to have done its part in the matter of punishing by law as well as by violence.