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Willie Lee Porter

Name:: Willie Lee Porter
Record Type:: Documented
Espy File Record:: true
Espy File ID:: 470295
State:: Tennessee
Date Execution:: 1941-07-24
Date Crime:: 1940-08-09
Age:: 21
Gender Assigned:: Male
Race:: Black
Crime Convicted of:: Murder-Burglary
Enslaved:: false
Compensation Case:: false
Execution Method:: Electrocution
Jurisdiction:: State
County:: Madison
County FIPS Code:: 47113
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