Deaths in Custody
Executed

Tim Jackson

died May 1, 1964 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Tim Jackson, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on May 1, 1964, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department's record gives the cause as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide, and it is the only source for these details.

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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