Deaths in Custody
Executed

Melbert Ford Jr.

50 years old · died June 9, 2010 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Melbert Ford Jr., 50, was executed by lethal injection on June 9, 2010, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which carried out the execution, lists the death as a judicial execution. The record gives no further details about his life or family, and no other account of the death has been found.

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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