Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ernest Dobbert

46 years old · died September 7, 1984 · Florida State Prison, Bradford County, Florida

Ernest Dobbert, a 46-year-old man, was held at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida, and was executed there in the electric chair on September 7, 1984. The Florida Department of Corrections, which carried out the execution, recorded the manner of death as homicide. The department's record lists the cause as execution in the electric chair.

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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