Executed
Leroy Scrutchens
Leroy Scrutchens, 37, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on January 2, 1948. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records the cause as execution and the manner as homicide. He was in the custody of the state at the time of his death.
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.