Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Earl Butts

41 years old · died May 4, 2018 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Robert Earl Butts, 41, was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on May 4, 2018, while held in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as an execution. The source gives no further details about his life or any objections raised to the execution.

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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