Deaths in Custody
Executed

Raymond Carter

24 years old · died December 9, 1938 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Raymond Carter, a 24-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, when he was executed in the electric chair on December 9, 1938. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as a state execution and lists the manner as homicide. The available source gives no further details about his life or family. No dispute about the execution itself is recorded in this account.

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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