Executed
Arthur Coombs
Arthur Coombs, a 30-year-old Black man, was put to death in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on November 12, 1936, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections, which recorded the execution as a state carrying out a sentence. The record gives no details of his family, work, or how he was regarded by others. It also reports no objections to the execution from any source.
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.