Executed
Eli Melton
Eli Melton, a 34-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on May 21, 1937, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The state's own execution history records the death as a judicial execution carried out by the State of Georgia. The source gives no account of his family, work, or the objections, if any, raised against his sentence.
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.