Executed

Joe L. Thompson

died November 14, 1957 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Joe L. Thompson, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Sunflower County, on November 14, 1957, according to a state corrections department record.

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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