Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Karl Hicks

47 years old · died July 1, 2004 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Robert Karl Hicks, 47, was executed by lethal injection by the State of Georgia on July 1, 2004, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history lists the method, date and place, and classifies the death as a homicide. The record offers nothing further about his life, family or the case, and no objections to the execution are recorded.

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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