Executed

James Russell

died April 5, 1956 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

James Russell, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on April 5, 1956, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department's record gives no account of his family, work, or life beyond his name and the execution.

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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