Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jeff Dozier

60 years old · died July 22, 1929 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Jeff Dozier, a 60-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County. The State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at the prison on July 22, 1929. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists his death as an execution by electric chair, with the manner recorded as homicide.

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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