Deaths in Custody
Executed

Clifton Williams

30 years old · died March 14, 1952 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Clifton Williams, a 30-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on March 14, 1952. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records the death as an execution carried out by the state. No family, personal details, or claims disputing the execution are given in that account.

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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