Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jewell Eller

21 years old · died November 5, 1948 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Jewell Eller was 21 years old when he was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on November 5, 1948. He was held in the custody of the prison at the time. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records his death as an execution by electric chair and lists the manner 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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