David Joseph Watson

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David Joseph Watson (died September 15, 1948) was a 23-year old African American, executed by the United States Federal Government in Florida for a murder committed on the High Seas (a federal offence).

Watson was one of the only two inmated executed on federal warrant in Florida during 20th century and remains, As of 2008, the only (presently all federal executions take place in Terre Haute, Indiana; while previously in the state where federal capital crime was committed).

Unlike the first, James Aldermon, Watson was put to death in Florida electric chair old sparky in Raiford Prison (Aldermon was hanged in Broward County jail, although federal inmates were usually executed by method provided by a state, where they committed a crime. In Florida's case electrocution).

Watson was also the third federal inmate executed under President Harry S. Truman.

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• Federal Death Penalty
• Federal executions prior to 1963
• Florida executions prior to 1964