Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ernest West Basden

died December 6, 2002 · Central Prison, Wake County, North Carolina

Ernest West Basden was executed by the State of North Carolina by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh on December 6, 2002.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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