Deaths in Custody
Executed

Demps Charles

28 years old · died August 21, 1936 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Demps Charles, a 28-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on August 21, 1936, as recorded by the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department lists the execution as the cause of death and classifies the manner as homicide. The record offers no details about his family, work, or how others remembered him, and it reports no objections to the execution.

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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