Deaths in Custody
Executed

Marcus Wellons

60 years old · died June 17, 2014 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Marcus Wellons, a 60-year-old man, was executed by lethal injection by the State of Georgia on June 17, 2014, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in Georgia, lists the cause as execution by lethal injection and the manner as homicide. The execution took place in state custody at the prison.

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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