Executed
Oscar Fields
Oscar Fields, 24, was put to death in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on August 16, 1940, by the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the execution as carried out under the state's sentence. The record gives no further details about his life or family.
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.