Deaths in Custody
Executed

J.C Murray

54 years old · died February 6, 1959 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

J.C. Murray, a 54-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on February 6, 1959. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records the death as an execution. The record offers no details about his life or family.

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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