JOE L SIMMS
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Officer Rank: Correctional Officer
Memorial Panel: 33-E: 29
Department: Tennessee Department of Correction
End of Watch: March 12, 1937
Cause: NIFE
Age: 47
Years of Service: 5
Description: Correctional Officer Simms was fatally stabbed as he delivered food to the death row inmates at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. When Officer Simms entered the cell of the inmate, he was attacked and stabbed to death. The inmate was executed.
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