Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ollie Chandler

18 years old · died October 18, 1963 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Ollie Chandler was 18 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on October 18, 1963. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as an execution by electric chair and lists the manner of death as homicide. He was in the custody of the prison at the time of his death.

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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