Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jim Moss

27 years old · died August 3, 1928 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Jim Moss, a 27-year-old Black man, was put to death in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on August 3, 1928. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's record of executions, lists the death as an execution carried out by the state. The record gives no details of his life or family.

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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