Deaths in Custody
Executed

William Putman

59 years old · died November 13, 2002 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

William Putman, 59, was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia, on November 13, 2002. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as an execution carried out by the state. The department lists the manner of death as homicide.

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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