Executed
James E Messer
James E. Messer, 34, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Georgia at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, on July 28, 1988. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists the manner of his death as homicide. He was held in state custody at that prison at the time of his 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.