Deaths in Custody
Executed

William Boyd Tucker

31 years old · died May 29, 1987 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

William Boyd Tucker, 31, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on May 29, 1987. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death in its history of executions in the state. He was held in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections at the time of his death.

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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