Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jack Roy Green

40 years old · died June 29, 1945 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Jack Roy Green, a 40-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on June 29, 1945, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was held at the prison when the execution took place. The department's list of executions records the death as a judicial execution and gives no further 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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