Executed
Chelsey Graham
Chesley Graham was executed by the State of Tennessee at Tennessee State Prison in Nashville on August 17, 1921, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. The Chicago Whip reported on August 27, 1921, that he was one of three men electrocuted in Nashville that week. The Department's record lists the cause as execution, and the Whip gives the method as electrocution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Tennessee Department of Correction (the agency that held him); news reports.