Executed

Walter Johnson

died August 19, 1955 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Walter Johnson was held in the custody of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in Sunflower County. On August 19, 1955, the State of Mississippi executed him in the gas chamber there. The Mississippi Department of Corrections records the cause of death as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide.

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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