Executed

Henry Jackson

died November 8, 1956 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Henry Jackson, a Black man, was in the custody of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in Sunflower County. The Mississippi Department of Corrections says he was executed in the gas chamber there on November 8, 1956. The department records the manner of his death as homicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Mississippi 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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