Executed
Wilbert Gene Jones
Wilbert Gene Jones, an 18-year-old Black man, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on September 12, 1949. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state. The available source gives no information about his family or life, and does not address any dispute over the sentence or 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.