Deaths in Custody
Executed

Grady Brooks

19 years old · died October 27, 1933 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Grady Brooks, a 19-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on October 27, 1933. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out under state authority at the prison. The record contains no details about his family, work, or how others remembered him.

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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