Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry Harden

24 years old · died May 10, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Henry Harden, a 24-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, on May 10, 1935, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The state's execution record lists the cause as execution by electric chair and records the manner as homicide. The available account gives no further information about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case, and no other sources in this record dispute or add to the official entry.

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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