Deaths in Custody
Executed

Henry Willis III

34 years old · died May 18, 1989 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Henry Willis III, 34, a Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, on May 18, 1989, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department lists the death as an execution and records the manner as homicide.

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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