Deaths in Custody
Executed

Adel Johnson

21 years old · died August 10, 1943 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Adel Johnson, 21, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on August 10, 1943. He was being held at the prison at the time, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections' history of executions. The department's record gives the cause as execution by electric chair and classifies the manner of death as homicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Georgia 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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