Deaths in Custody
Executed

Frank Knight

26 years old · died November 25, 1938 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Frank Knight was 26 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on November 25, 1938. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in the state, records his death as an execution by electric chair. He was held at the prison when the state carried out the execution.

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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