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Executed

Howard Leroy Booker

35 years old · died September 17, 1954 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Howard Leroy Booker, 35, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on September 17, 1954, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections execution history. The state's records list the manner of death as homicide by execution. The available source gives no further details about his life or family. No dispute about the execution itself is recorded in this source.

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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