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Orion Johnson

19 years old · died September 28, 1954 · Florida

Orion Johnson was 19 years old when the State of Florida executed him in the electric chair on September 28, 1954. He was in Florida state custody at the time. The Florida Department of Corrections records his death as an execution by electric chair. The record gives his manner of death as homicide, the category the state's own execution lists use.

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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