Deaths in Custody
Executed

Amos Patrick

34 years old · died May 8, 1953 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Amos Patrick, 34, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, and was executed in the electric chair there on May 8, 1953, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's list of executions in Georgia records the death as a state execution. The available record offers no account of his life or family, and no dispute about the execution is recorded.

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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