Deaths in Custody
Executed

Edwin Hart Turner

died February 8, 2012 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Edwin Hart Turner was put to death by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Sunflower County, on February 8, 2012, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department recorded the death as an execution carried out under a state sentence. It listed the manner of death as homicide and the cause as execution by lethal injection. He is recorded as White and male.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Mississippi 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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