Deaths in Custody
Executed

Arthur Bell

died March 7, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Arthur Bell, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on March 7, 1935, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The record gives no details about his family, work, or who he was beyond his name and race, and his age is not recorded. The state's execution record is the only source cited for his death, and it names no objections or appeals. No other accounts of his case were available to compare with it.

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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