Executed
Charlie Copeland Jr.
Charlie Copeland Jr., age 24, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on April 28, 1956. He had been in the custody of the state prison system at the time of his death. The Florida Department of Corrections records his death as an execution and lists its manner as homicide, the category it uses for executions.
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.