Executed
James E. Felton
James E. Felton, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on August 6, 1951. The Florida Department of Corrections, which keeps the execution record, lists the cause as execution in the electric chair and the manner as homicide. The record gives no account of his family, work, or life, and no objections to the execution are recorded in this source.
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.