Deaths in Custody
Executed

Mack Ranson

38 years old · died October 27, 1941 · Florida

Mack Ranson, 38, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on October 27, 1941. The Florida Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution list, records the death as a homicide carried out by electrocution. The available record says nothing about his family, his work, or how others remembered him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Florida 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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