Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry William Hicks

18 years old · died October 18, 1940 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Henry William Hicks was 18 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on October 18, 1940. He had been held at the prison before his death. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution by electric chair.

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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