Executed

Robert L. Goldsby

died May 31, 1961 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Robert L. Goldsby, a Black man, was executed by the State of Mississippi in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on May 31, 1961, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department lists the death as an execution carried out by the state. The available account contains nothing about Mr. Goldsby's family or work, and no objections to the execution are recorded in it.

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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