Deaths in Custody
Executed

Mitchell Jackson

26 years old · died July 9, 1937 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Mitchell Jackson, 26, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on July 9, 1937, by the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in the state, records the death as an execution by electrocution and classifies its manner as homicide. The department's account names the State of Georgia as the authority that carried out the execution.

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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