Deaths in Custody
Executed

Miguel Peralta

died July 7, 1916 · Arizona State Prison, Pinal County, Arizona

Miguel Peralta, a man of Hispanic descent, was executed by hanging at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Pinal County, on July 7, 1916, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, which records the death as a judicial execution. The department's record gives the cause as execution by hanging and lists the manner as homicide. The source material does not describe his family, his work, or how people who knew him regarded him, and it includes no objections to the execution.

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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