Executed
Napoleon Wise
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Napoleon Wise, 20, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on June 6, 1952. He had been held at the prison under a sentence of the state, and the department lists his death as a judicial execution. The department's account gives execution in the electric chair as the cause of death and records the state as the authority that carried it out.
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.