Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Sanders

41 years old · died November 18, 1927 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

John Sanders, a 41-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on November 18, 1927, 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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