Executed

August Lafontaine

died April 28, 1955 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

August Lafontaine was executed in the gas chamber at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Sunflower County, on April 28, 1955, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department lists the cause as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide. The available record includes no details about his family, work, or what others said about him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Mississippi 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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