Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Miller

35 years old · died March 6, 1942 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

John Miller, a 35-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on March 6, 1942. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's record of executions, lists the death as an execution by the state. The record gives no details about his family or how he is remembered.

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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