Deaths in Custody
Executed

English Gaskins

32 years old · died December 21, 1931 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

English Gaskins, a 32-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on December 21, 1931. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the state. The available record gives no further details about his life or family. No other claims about the circumstances of his death are recorded in this source.

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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