Deaths in Custody
Executed

Griff Grinstead

56 years old · died February 22, 1929 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Griff Grinstead, 56, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on February 22, 1929, by order of the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the record of the execution, lists the manner of death as homicide under state authority. The source gives no details about his family or his life beyond his name and age.

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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