Executed
Ed Capers
Ed Capers, a 19-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on January 18, 1929, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections' record of executions. The state's records list the manner of death as homicide, the legal term for a judicial execution. The available source gives no further details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case, and no other accounts were consulted for this entry.
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.