Executed
Don Mitchell Coleman
Don Mitchell Coleman, an 18-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on March 19, 1957. He was held in the custody of the prison at the time. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as a state execution, and no other claims about his death are attributed in the available 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.