Executed
Joe Ferguson
Joe Ferguson, a 42-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on August 4, 1947, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. The department's execution list records the cause as execution in the electric chair and classifies the manner as homicide. The source gives no details about his family, work or life, and it includes no objections to the execution.
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.