Deaths in Custody
Executed

Herbert Fennell

30 years old · died June 3, 1927 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Herbert Fennell, a 30-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on June 3, 1927. He had been held at the prison under a state sentence. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the death as an execution 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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