Executed

Willie J. Anderson

died June 14, 1963 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Willie J. Anderson, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on June 14, 1963, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department lists the manner of death as homicide. The source material includes no details about his family or life, and no objections to the execution are recorded in it.

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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