Deaths in Custody
Executed

Richard Morris

18 years old · died August 11, 1933 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Richard Morris, an 18-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on August 11, 1933, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department lists his death as a homicide, the category it uses for executions. Its records give these facts, and they are the basis for 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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