Deaths in Custody
Executed

Nathaniel Taylor

37 years old · died November 30, 1945 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Nathaniel Taylor, a 37-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on November 30, 1945. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists his death as an execution by electric chair.

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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