Deaths in Custody
Executed

Elliott Simon

55 years old · died November 5, 1954 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Elliott Simon, a 55-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on November 5, 1954. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution in its history of executions in the state. The available record gives no further details about his life or family. The execution is the only account of his death, and no other sources in the record dispute it.

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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