Deaths in Custody
Executed

R. H Shepherd

57 years old · died December 19, 1928 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

R. H. Shepherd, a 57-year-old man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on December 19, 1928. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the official history of executions in the state, records the death as an execution carried out by the State of Georgia. The record gives no information about his family, work, or how others remembered him.

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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