Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jimmy Lee Gray

died September 2, 1983 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Jimmy Lee Gray was executed by the State of Mississippi in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on September 2, 1983. The Mississippi Department of Corrections records the cause of death as execution in the gas chamber and gives the manner as homicide. The state's account is the only one used here, and it names no other claims about his death.

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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