Executed

Minor Sorber

died February 8, 1957 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Minor Sorber was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on February 8, 1957. The Mississippi Department of Corrections lists the cause of death as execution in the gas chamber and records the manner as homicide. The available record gives no further detail about his life or about any 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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