Executed
Wilbur P. Patterson
Wilbur P. Patterson, 24, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on March 17, 1947. The Florida Department of Corrections' execution list records his death as an execution, with homicide given as the manner and the electric chair as the method. The source gives no account of his family, work, or what others said about him, and no objections to his execution are reported in it.
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.