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Pringle Williams

17 years old · died October 8, 1926 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Pringle Williams was 17 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on October 8, 1926, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections' history of executions. He was in the custody of the prison at the time of his death. The department's record classifies the death as a homicide, which is how it lists judicial executions.

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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