Deaths in Custody
Executed

Buddie Lawrence

28 years old · died December 13, 1940 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Buddie Lawrence, 28, died on December 13, 1940, at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records his death as a judicial execution carried out by electric chair at the prison. He was held at the prison when the state carried out 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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