Deaths in Custody
Executed

Wilbur Galloway

28 years old · died October 14, 1927 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Wilbur Galloway was 28 years old and Black. He was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, where the state executed him in the electric chair on October 14, 1927. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists his death as an execution carried out by the state.

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.

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