Deaths in Custody
Executed

Joseph Mulligan

35 years old · died May 15, 1987 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Joseph Mulligan, 35, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on May 15, 1987. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as an execution. The department lists the manner of death as homicide, the category it uses for judicial executions.

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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