Executed
Richard Sims
Richard Sims was 18 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on August 11, 1933. He was held at the prison in Baldwin County. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records his death as an execution, and lists the manner of death as homicide.
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.