Deaths in Custody
Executed

Alvin T Merritt

25 years old · died October 4, 1929 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Alvin T. Merritt, 25, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on October 4, 1929, while in the custody of the state of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as the cause of death.

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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