Deaths in Custody
Executed

George Ferguson

died February 23, 1951 · Arkansas

George Ferguson was executed by the State of Arkansas on February 23, 1951, while in the custody of the state prison system. The Arkansas Department of Corrections lists the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide, according to its execution records. Ferguson was a Black man, as the department's records identify him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Arkansas 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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