Deaths in Custody
Executed

L. C Johnson

19 years old · died March 9, 1945 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

L. C. Johnson, a 19-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on March 9, 1945. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's record of executions, records the death as a homicide carried out by the state. He was in the custody of the prison when he died.

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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