Executed
Willie Horne
Willie Horne, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Florida on January 12, 1959. The Florida Department of Corrections, whose execution list records the death, gives the cause as execution in the electric chair and classes the manner as homicide. Horne was in the custody of the state at the time of death.
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.