Deaths in Custody
Executed

Calvin Eugene Davis

19 years old · died November 12, 1954 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Calvin Eugene Davis, a 19-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on November 12, 1954, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution record lists the cause as execution by electric chair and the manner as homicide, which is how the state classified the death. The record gives no further details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case, and no other accounts of his death were provided for this memorial.

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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