Executed
Burley Adams
Burley Adams, a 34-year-old man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on May 22, 1931. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists his death as a judicial execution carried out by the state. The record gives his age, race, place of death and method, but nothing about his family, work or life outside prison.
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.