Deaths in Custody
Executed

Gilbert Glaze

30 years old · died April 17, 1931 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Gilbert Glaze, a 30-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on April 17, 1931, by the State of Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections' execution history. The Department lists the cause as execution and the manner as homicide. The record includes no other details of his life or of the events leading to his death.

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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