Executed
Horace Johnson
Horace Johnson, a 29-year-old Black man, was held in the custody of the Georgia prison system at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County. He was put to death in the electric chair at the prison on October 7, 1952, in a judicial execution carried out by the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution and classes its 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.