Executed
Leonard Coey
Leonard Coey was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Pinal County, on May 22, 1957. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry records his death as an execution by the State of Arizona. He was held at the prison at the time of his death. The department classes the death as a homicide under the state's execution procedure.
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.