Deaths in Custody
Executed

Richard Tucker

44 years old · died May 22, 1987 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Richard Tucker, 44, was held at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on May 22, 1987. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records the death as an execution by electric chair and lists its manner 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.

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