Executed
Buck Etheridge
Buck Etheridge, a 20-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on November 10, 1938. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as a judicial execution by the State of Georgia. The Department classifies the death as a homicide, the category it uses for executions.
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.