Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Henry Sloan

25 years old · died December 31, 1936 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

John Henry Sloan, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on December 31, 1936, according to the state corrections department.

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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