Deaths in Custody
Executed

Tom Williams

53 years old · died April 15, 1955 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Tom Williams, 53, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on April 15, 1955. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution by electric chair. The record is a state list of executions, and it gives his age, the facility, the date and the method.

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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