Executed
Walter Hillman Yearwood
Walter Hillman Yearwood, 23, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on October 22, 1946. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the death as a judicial 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.