Deaths in Custody
Executed

Mose Parker

35 years old · died October 14, 1927 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Mose Parker, a 35-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on October 14, 1927. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the cause of death as execution by electric chair and lists the manner as homicide. He died in the custody of the state at the prison, which 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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