Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ossie Smith

died June 15, 1934 · Central Prison, Wake County, North Carolina

Ossie Smith was executed by the State of North Carolina in the electric chair at Central Prison in Raleigh on June 15, 1934.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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