Executed
Morgan Persons
Morgan Persons, a Black man aged 39, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on May 20, 1949. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists the death as a judicial execution carried out under state authority.
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.