Deaths in Custody
Executed

Elvin Jack Odom

died January 14, 1938 · Arizona State Prison, Pinal County, Arizona

Elvin Jack Odom was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Pinal County, on January 14, 1938, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. He was held at the prison in the custody of the state when he died. The department's record classifies the manner of death as homicide, as a judicial execution, and lists no other details of his life or of any objections to the sentence.

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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