Deaths in Custody
Executed

Van Roosevelt Solomon

41 years old · died February 20, 1985 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Van Roosevelt Solomon, 41, was held at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on February 20, 1985. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution.

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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