Deaths in Custody
Executed

Lewis Wilcoxson

20 years old · died March 26, 1943 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Lewis Wilcoxson, a 20-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville on March 26, 1943, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history is the source for the date, place, and method of death. No other details of his life or family are given in the source, and no objections to the execution are recorded in it.

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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