Deaths in Custody
Executed

Arthur Darden

22 years old · died April 25, 1952 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Arthur Darden, a 22-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on April 25, 1952. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the execution record, lists the death as carried out by the state. The record gives no details of his life, family, or work. It also reports no objections to the execution.

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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