Executed
Simmie Gaines
Simmie Gaines, a 35-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. On October 10, 1935, he was executed in the electric chair there, a judicial execution by the State of Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department records the cause as execution in the electric chair and the manner as homicide.
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.