Deaths in Custody
Executed

Varnall Weeks

died May 12, 1995 · Holman Correctional Facility, Escambia County, Alabama

Varnall Weeks, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on May 12, 1995. The Alabama Department of Corrections recorded his death as an execution carried out under state authority. The record offered here includes no account of his family, work, or what others remembered about him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Alabama 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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