Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Clark

44 years old · died March 20, 1929 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

John Clark, a 44-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, on March 20, 1929, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The Department lists his death as a judicial execution carried out by the state while he was held at the prison.

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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