Executed

Mose Robinson

died December 16, 1955 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Mose Robinson, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on December 16, 1955, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He was held in state custody at the penitentiary until his execution. The department's account gives the execution as the cause and manner of his death.

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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