Deaths in Custody
Executed

George Gilbert

28 years old · died November 30, 1938 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

George Gilbert, 28, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on November 30, 1938. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its historical record of executions, lists the manner as homicide by execution in the electric chair. The record gives no further details about his life or family.

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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