Executed
Robert Lee Brannon
Robert Lee Brannon, 39, was a Black man held in the custody of the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections records that he was put to death in the electric chair at the prison on December 13, 1940. The department lists the manner of death as homicide, the form of the state's 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.