Deaths in Custody
Executed

John F Corbin

32 years old · died February 8, 1957 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

John F. Corbin, 32, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on February 8, 1957, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's historical record lists the manner of death as homicide, its term for a judicial execution. The record offers nothing further about his life or family, and it gives no account of the circumstances of the execution or of any dispute over the sentence.

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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