Deaths in Custody
Executed

David Benjamin Knight

died September 3, 1937 · Arizona State Prison, Pinal County, Arizona

David Benjamin Knight was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Pinal County, on September 3, 1937, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. The department lists the cause as execution and the manner as homicide. The available record gives no details about his life or family. It also records no objections to the execution.

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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