Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Henry Thomas

21 years old · died August 6, 1936 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

John Henry Thomas, a 21-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on August 6, 1936, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the execution as the cause and manner of his death.

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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