Executed
Walter Melton
Walter Melton, 31, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville on October 18, 1938, by the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's execution history, records the method as execution by electric chair.
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.