Deaths in Custody
Executed

Archie Barfield

22 years old · died February 15, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Archie Barfield, a 22-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on February 15, 1935. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, lists his death as an execution carried out by the state. The available record gives no details about his family or work. No dispute over 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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