Deaths in Custody
Executed

William Henry Hance

42 years old · died March 31, 1994 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

William Henry Hance, 42, was executed in the electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on March 31, 1994, by the State of Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. WSB-TV reported in 2019 that he had served as an Army private stationed at Fort Benning before his sentence.

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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