Deaths in Custody
Executed

James Barbee

47 years old · died December 29, 1933 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

James Barbee, a 47-year-old man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on December 29, 1933. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's record of executions, lists his death as an execution carried out by the state. The available source gives no information about his family, work, or what he was like as a person, and it offers no other account of how the execution was carried out.

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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