Executed
James Barker
James Barker, 23, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, on February 14, 1930. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the death as an execution carried out by the state. The available source gives no details about his family or work. No other account of the execution is cited here, so the record does not show any dispute over how it took place.
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.