Executed

William Stokes

died April 21, 1961 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

William Stokes, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on April 21, 1961, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the execution as the cause of death and the manner as homicide. The source gives no details about his family, work, or life beyond his name, and it reports no objections to the execution.

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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