Deaths in Custody
Executed

Roy Blankenship

56 years old · died June 23, 2011 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Roy Blankenship, 56, was executed by the State of Georgia by lethal injection on June 23, 2011, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, where he was held in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections. The Department of Corrections lists his death as an execution carried out by the state. The available record includes no details about his family or work, and no dispute over the circumstances of his death is 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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