Deaths in Custody
Executed

Eddie Brown Jr.

23 years old · died February 13, 1948 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Eddie Brown Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on February 13, 1948. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records his death as an execution carried out by the state. Official records give no further account of his life or of the events leading up to his death.

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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