Deaths in Custody
Executed

Arthur E. Berry

23 years old · died April 4, 1949 · Florida

Arthur E. Berry was 23 years old when the State of Florida executed him in the electric chair on April 4, 1949. He was in state custody at the time, and the Florida Department of Corrections gives the date and method of his death as an execution in the electric chair.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Florida Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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