Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jose Martinez High

43 years old · died November 6, 2001 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Jose Martinez High, also listed as Jose M. High, was 43 years old when the State of Georgia executed him by lethal injection on November 6, 2001, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution, and a 2019 WSB-TV report revisits the 1976 case that led to it.

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.

News reports (2)