Deaths in Custody
Executed

Will Osborne

18 years old · died January 12, 1934 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Will Osborne, an 18-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on January 12, 1934. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as an execution by the State of Georgia.

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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