Executed
Ernest Patton
Ernest Patton, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Pinal County, on August 13, 1937, according to the state corrections department. The department's record lists the cause as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide.
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.