Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Walker

26 years old · died April 28, 1944 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Robert Walker, a 26-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections records that the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at that prison on April 28, 1944. The department lists the manner of death as homicide, the category it uses for judicial executions.

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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