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Simee Lee Fields

21 years old · died May 10, 1937 · Florida

Simee Lee Fields, 21, was executed by the State of Florida in the electric chair on May 10, 1937. The Florida Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution list, records the method and date. Fields was a Black man, and he was sentenced at the time of his death.

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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