Deaths in Custody
Executed

Charles Sanders

died January 8, 1943 · Arizona State Prison, Pinal County, Arizona

Charles Sanders, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 8, 1943, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. The department lists the cause of death as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide. No objections to the execution are recorded in the source material.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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