Roosevelt Green, Jr.
Roosevelt Green, Jr. was 28 years old when the State of Georgia executed him. A former correctional officer later recalled that shortly before his death he shook an officer's hand and apologized for any problems he had caused during his time at the prison. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, the state carried out the execution in the electric chair at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, on January 9, 1985. Officials described it as an execution by electrocution carried out under the state's sentence.
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.