Executed
John Henry Simmons
John Henry Simmons, a 50-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, and was executed in the electric chair there on March 20, 1936. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the state. The available account gives no further details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case. No other source in the record disputes the state's account of how he died.
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.