Executed
James Shivers
James Shivers, a 38-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on January 30, 1942, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. Because this was a judicial execution, the state itself is the party that carried out the death, and the department's record lists the cause as execution by electric chair.
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.