Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jose R. Villafuerte

died April 22, 1998 · Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence, Pinal County, Arizona

Jose R. Villafuerte, a Hispanic man, was executed by lethal injection by the State of Arizona at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence in Florence on April 22, 1998. He was held in state custody at the prison at the time of his death. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry lists the manner of death as homicide, the category it applies to executions.

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.

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