Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Henry Wright

28 years old · died March 1, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

John Henry Wright, 28, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on March 1, 1935, under the authority of the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in the state, records his death as an execution. No other details about his life or the circumstances of his death are included in the material provided.

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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