Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry R Woods

20 years old · died December 19, 1958 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Henry R. Woods was 20 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on December 19, 1958. At the time he was in the custody of the prison. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions, records the manner of death as homicide by the state.

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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