Deaths in Custody
Executed

Clatence Sheffield

36 years old · died September 29, 1939 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Clatence Sheffield, 36, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on September 29, 1939. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the state. The available record contains no information about his family, work, or life before his death.

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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