Executed
John Earnest Ransom
John Earnest Ransom, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence on January 5, 1945, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. The department's record lists the manner of death as homicide, its classification for an execution carried out by the state. The available record gives no further detail about him, and it contains no objections to the execution.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.