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Joe Lee Jones

17 years old · died November 19, 1954 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Joe Lee Jones was 17 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on November 19, 1954. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the execution as carried out by the state. The department's record classifies the manner of death 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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