Executed
J. B Reese
J. B. Reese, a 19-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on July 19, 1935. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the death as a judicial execution. The available record gives no further detail about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case, and no other account of the execution was provided.
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.