Deaths in Custody
Executed

Arthur Burden

28 years old · died February 24, 1937 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Arthur Burden, a 28-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on February 24, 1937, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department records the manner of death as homicide by the state. The available record gives no information about his family, work, or the circumstances of his case.

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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