Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jessie Hilton

33 years old · died June 4, 1951 · Florida

Jessie Hilton, a man aged 33, was executed by the State of Florida in the electric chair on June 4, 1951. The Florida Department of Corrections, in its execution list, records the cause as execution in the electric chair and the manner as homicide. Those records are the only account of his death in this entry.

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.

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