Deaths in Custody
Executed

Will Lacy

41 years old · died May 21, 1937 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Will Lacy, a 41-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on May 21, 1937, by the State of Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history lists the death as a state execution and gives no details about his life, family, or work. The available source offers no account of the case beyond the execution itself.

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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