Executed
Ebenezer Scott
Ebenezer Scott, 27, was a Black man who was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on August 1, 1947. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records the death as an execution carried out by the State. The Department classifies the manner of death as homicide, the category it uses for executions.
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.