Executed
Charles L King
Charles L. King, 19, was a Black man held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on November 19, 1954. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the death as a judicial execution and lists the manner as homicide. The record gives no details of his family, work, or other personal life.
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.