Deaths in Custody
Executed

Isaac McBride

31 years old · died November 4, 1938 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Isaac McBride, a 31-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on November 4, 1938. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in Georgia, records his death as a state execution carried out at that prison. The department lists the cause of death as 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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