Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Wilson

died May 11, 1962 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

Willie Wilson, a Black man, was executed in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on May 11, 1962, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The department lists the cause as execution in the gas chamber and the manner as homicide. The available record includes no account of his family, work, or any objections raised to his 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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