Deaths in Custody
Executed

Charlie Hicks

21 years old · died June 8, 1928 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Charlie Hicks, 21, was a Black man executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on June 8, 1928, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's history of executions records his death as an execution carried out at the 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.

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