Deaths in Custody
Executed

Marvin Perry

40 years old · died April 17, 1931 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Marvin Perry, a 40-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on April 17, 1931. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as a judicial execution by the state. The available record gives no details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case beyond the execution itself.

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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