Executed
Morris Dorsey
Morris Dorsey, 23, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on February 8, 1947, while in the custody of the state. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in Georgia, records the death as a state execution. No objections to the execution are reported in this account.
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.