Deaths in Custody
Executed

Edgar J. LaVoie

55 years old · died August 20, 1956 · Florida

Edgar J. LaVoie, a 55-year-old man, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on August 20, 1956, while in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections. The department's execution list records the cause of death as execution in the electric chair and the manner as homicide.

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.

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