Executed
Lawrence Welch
Lawrence Welch, a 46-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on April 4, 1933. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the execution as a state homicide. The record gives no details of his family or life beyond his age and race.
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.