Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Young

28 years old · died March 20, 1985 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

John Young, 28, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, on March 20, 1985. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state, with the electric chair named as the method. His manner of death is listed in state records as homicide.

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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