Executed
Jimmie Lee Tye
Jimmie Lee Tye, a 22-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on January 19, 1945. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its execution history, records the death as a state execution carried out while he was held at the prison. The record gives no information about his family, work, or what people remembered of him. No dispute about the execution is recorded in this source.
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.