Deaths in Custody
Executed

Sylvester Fuller

25 years old · died June 17, 1955 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Sylvester Fuller, 25, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections records that the state executed him in the electric chair at that prison on June 17, 1955. The department's history of executions lists the manner of death as homicide, reflecting the state's sentence carried out by its officials.

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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