Deaths in Custody
Executed

James Johnson

died November 23, 1926 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

James Johnson, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on November 23, 1926, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The Department lists the manner of death as homicide by judicial 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.

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