Deaths in Custody
Executed

J. P Goodman

21 years old · died May 14, 1937 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

J. P. Goodman, 21, a Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, under a sentence of death. On May 14, 1937, the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at the prison, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The Department records his death as an execution.

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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