Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jimmie Richardson

47 years old · died November 3, 1950 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Jimmie Richardson, a 47-year-old man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the state executed him in the electric chair on November 3, 1950. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions, records the death as a homicide carried out by electrocution. Officials at the prison carried out the execution under state authority.

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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