Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jerome Bowden

33 years old · died June 24, 1986 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Jerome Bowden, a 33-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, on June 24, 1986, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department records his death as an execution carried out by the state.

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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