Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Coates

36 years old · died February 21, 1928 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Robert Coates, 36, was put to death in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Georgia, on February 21, 1928. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists his 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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