Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry Savage

35 years old · died November 21, 1952 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Henry Savage, a 35-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, where the state executed him in the electric chair on November 21, 1952. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as a judicial execution carried out by the state. The record contains no information about his family or work.

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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