Executed
Robert L. Colson
Robert L. Colson, a 25-year-old Black man, was in the custody of the State of Florida, and the Florida Department of Corrections' execution list records that the state executed him in the electric chair on October 1, 1956. The Department classifies the manner of death as homicide, the category it uses for state executions.
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.