Deaths in Custody
Executed

Rack Reese

55 years old · died March 1, 1935 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Rack Reese, a 55-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on March 1, 1935, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was in the custody of the prison at the time of his death. The department records his death as an execution carried out 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.

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