Deaths in Custody
Executed

J. T Hammett

47 years old · died February 11, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

J. T. Hammett, a 47-year-old man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on February 11, 1935. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the official record of executions in the state, lists the death as an execution. The available source gives no information about Mr. Hammett's family, work, or life beyond his name, age, and the date and place of his death.

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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