Executed
Paul Cooper
Paul Cooper, a 48-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on September 21, 1956, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The record gives the cause as execution by electric chair and the manner as homicide, as recorded by the state.
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.