Executed
William B Stroup
William B. Stroup, 41, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, when the state executed him in the electric chair on July 28, 1944. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the death as an execution by electric chair. The department classifies the manner of death as homicide, the category it uses for state executions.
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.