Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ulysses Gilbert

24 years old · died April 27, 1945 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Ulysses Gilbert was 24 years old when he was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections records that the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at the prison on April 27, 1945. The department's history of executions in Georgia lists his death as a judicial execution carried out by the state.

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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