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| Jailer J. C. Landrum
Hinds County Sheriff's Office
Mississippi
End of Watch: Tuesday, September 14, 1954 Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Assault
Date of Incident: Thursday, September 9, 1954
Weapon Used: Blunt object
Suspect Info: Executed in 1955 Jailer J.C. Landrum was mortally wounded when a death row inmate smashed his skull with an iron chair leg as he and another death row inmate escaped from the Hinds County Jail in Jackson. Five days later both suspects were captured in a wooded area 40 miles away. Within minutes of their capture, Jailer Landrum died from his injuries.
Both suspects, on death row at Parchman Penitentiary, had been returned to the Hinds County Jail pending their appeals of their death sentences. The suspect who killed Jailer Landrum was under a sentence of death for the murder of Sergeant Ernest F. Beaugez, of the Ocean Springs Police Department on May 27, 1954. On March 3, 1955, he was the first death row inmate to be executed in Mississippi's new gas chamber. Related Line of Duty Deaths | |
