Deaths in Custody
Executed

Joe Tucker

died March 5, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Joe Tucker, a Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on March 5, 1935, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history is the only source cited, and it lists the death as an execution by electric chair.

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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