Deaths in Custody
Executed

Derrick Oneal Mason

37 years old · died September 22, 2011 · Holman Correctional Facility, Escambia County, Alabama

Derrick Mason, 37, was executed by lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, on September 22, 2011, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. Family members witnessed the execution, and he told them he had given his life to God and asked them to remember Joshua 1:9. Reports of the execution from the same week place it among several executions carried out across the United States that month.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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