Executed
John Ellen
John Ellen, a 41-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair by the State of Georgia at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on January 27, 1930. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the death as a judicial execution.
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.