Executed
Walter Philpot
Walter Philpot, 39, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on January 27, 1956. He had been held at the prison under a sentence of death, and the Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the state. The Department lists the manner of death as homicide.
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.