Deaths in Custody
Executed

William Searcy

32 years old · died October 30, 1931 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

William Searcy, a 32-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on October 30, 1931. The Georgia Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state. The record gives no information about his family, his work, or any objections raised to his execution.

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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