Deaths in Custody
Executed

William Dillard Powell

died March 11, 2005 · Central Prison, Wake County, North Carolina

William Dillard Powell was executed by the State of North Carolina by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh on March 11, 2005.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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