Executed
Jim Owen
Jim Owen, a 43-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on October 6, 1947. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as a judicial execution carried out by the state. Accounts of his life and family are not included in the material used for this entry.
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.