Luke Frazier, a negro of New Bern, was electrocuted at the State penitentiary Friday morning at 10 o’clock. Frazier was convicted of killing another negro. He did not appeal his case to the Supreme Court, and only two letters came to the office of Governor Morrison about the negro. One of these was from a man who said that Frazier had worked for him, and he believed that the ends of justice would be met if the negro were imprisoned for life instead of executed. The other letter was from a justice of the peace in Craven county and told the Governor that if ever capital punishment could be justified it was justified in this case.
The Governor, having no formal application before him and no information about the case, allowed the law to take its course.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, Saturday evening, May 28, 1921
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