Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry Ellis

25 years old · died April 18, 1928 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Henry Ellis, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on April 18, 1928. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as a state execution. The execution took place in the prison where he was held.

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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