Executed
Carroll Edward Cole
Carroll Edward Cole was born in Iowa in 1938, the youngest of three children. He was held on death row at Nevada State Prison, where he chose not to pursue appeals and asked that his sentence be carried out. He was put to death by lethal injection on December 6, 1985, and the Orlando Sentinel reported that he was the first person in Nevada to be executed that way. The article attributes his account of a troubled childhood, including abuse by his mother, to his own statements, and says he continued to blame her until the end.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Nevada State Prison (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.