Executed
Isiah Ashley
Isiah Ashley, an 18-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on April 5, 1935, where he was held in the custody of the state. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the death and classifies it as a homicide carried out 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.