Executed
L. B Newsome
L. B. Newsome was a 21-year-old Black man held in the custody of the State of Georgia at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, the state executed him in the electric chair at the prison on March 13, 1931. The department lists the manner of death as homicide by execution.
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.