Deaths in Custody
Executed

Kenneth Slyter

died March 29, 1963 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Kenneth Slyter was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on March 29, 1963, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the cause as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide. The available record includes nothing about his family, work, or what others remember of him, and it raises no objections to the execution.

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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