Executed
Robert Brown
Robert Brown, 26, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on May 17, 1940, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history lists the death as a judicial execution, and it is the only source we have for the death. Mr. Brown was a Black man, as the record states, and it names no family members or other people who knew him.
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.