Executed
John Henry White
John Henry White, a 26-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville on October 4, 1957, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history lists the manner of his death as homicide, and it records the execution as carried out by the State of Georgia. His death was the state's execution of a man held at the prison under a sentence of 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.