Executed

William A. Wetzell

died January 17, 1958 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

William A. Wetzell was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on January 17, 1958, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, which lists the death as an execution by the state. The department's record gives his race as White and his sex as male. No objections to the execution are recorded in the source material.

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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