Executed
Wash Smith
Wash Smith, a 21-year-old man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on November 22, 1930. The Georgia Department of Corrections, which keeps the state's record of executions, lists the cause as execution by electric chair. The record gives no details of his life outside the prison and no account of any dispute over the 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.