Deaths in Custody
Executed

Mose Trammell

36 years old · died May 28, 1937 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Mose Trammell, a 36-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, when the state executed him in the electric chair on May 28, 1937. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state. Its account gives no dispute over how he died.

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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