Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Lee Stanford

25 years old · died August 1, 1947 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Robert Lee Stanford, 25, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on August 1, 1947, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The state's record lists the manner of death as homicide, the legal form of a judicial execution. The available source gives no further account of his life or the circumstances of his case, and no family statements or other accounts are included in what was reviewed.

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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