Deaths in Custody
Executed

Renty Screven

50 years old · died March 21, 1930 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Renty Screven, a 50-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on March 21, 1930. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in the state, records the 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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