Deaths in Custody
Executed

Otha A Adams

54 years old · died November 14, 1958 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Otha A. Adams, a 54-year-old man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on November 14, 1958. He was in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections when he died. The Department's historical record lists the cause of death as execution by electric chair and classifies the manner of death as homicide.

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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