Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Frank Bryan

19 years old · died May 26, 1950 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Robert Frank Bryan, 19, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia, on May 26, 1950. He was in the custody of the Georgia prison system at the time. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state. The state's record lists the manner of death as homicide by 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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