Executed
John William Sutton
John William Sutton, a 22-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 November 8, 1940, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department lists the execution as both the cause and the manner of his death. The prison was the place of his death, and the state carried out the execution there.
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.