Deaths in Custody
Executed

J. B Beetlesm

32 years old · died October 15, 1948 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

J. B. Beetlesm, a 32-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on October 15, 1948. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the cause of death as execution by electric chair, carried out by the state while he was held at the prison. No other account of the death has been identified.

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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