Deaths in Custody
Executed

Emory Van Duzer

24 years old · died June 27, 1930 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Emory Van Duzer, a 24-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on June 27, 1930. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the cause of death as execution by electric chair. He was held in the custody of the state prison when he died.

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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