Deaths in Custody
Executed

Joseph Bates

died September 26, 2003 · Central Prison, Wake County, North Carolina

Joseph Bates was executed by the State of North Carolina by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh on September 26, 2003.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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