Yocum, Chris | 1-15-1942 | Lynched | Orange | Beaumont, TX | n/a | Brother of killer | |
Yocum, Thomas D. | 9-1841 | Gunshot | Orange | Montgomery Co., TX | n/a | Multiple-Murder | |
Young, Andy | 10-22-1892 | Lynched | Red River | Red River Co., TX | n/z | ||
Young, Henderson | 5-6-1938 | Electrocuted | Harrison | Huntsville, TX | 196 | Rape | |
Young, Roscoe | 5-6-1938 | Electrocuted | Harrison | Huntsville, TX | 195 | Robbery |
Chris Yocum was lynched by a mob just for being the brother of Thomas D. Yocum who had murdered his wife with an axe.
Sources:
Texas
Department of Criminal Justice Home Page
for executions after 1977.
The Rope, The Chair, And The Needle by James W. Marquart,
©1994, University of Texas Press for those executions before
1977.
Without
Sanctuary by James Allen and John
Littlefield, © 2000, for early lynchings in Texas.