Deaths in Custody
Executed

Eugene Key

25 years old · died August 25, 1933 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Eugene Key, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on August 25, 1933, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections' execution history. The department classifies the death as a homicide and lists the cause as execution by the State of Georgia.

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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