Executed
William Billy Mitchell
William Billy Mitchell, 35, was executed in the electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia, on September 2, 1987, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections' published history of executions. The department lists the manner of death as homicide, which is the state's own classification of an execution. The source gives no further details about Mitchell's life, and it reports no objections to the sentence or the method.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Georgia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.