Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jennings Edward Fields

32 years old · died March 5, 1957 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Jennings Edward Fields, 32, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on March 5, 1957. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as a judicial execution carried out by the state. The Department lists the manner of death 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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