Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Bryant

23 years old · died October 4, 1929 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Willie Bryant, 23, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on October 4, 1929. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its published history of executions in the state, records his death as a judicial execution and lists its manner as homicide. Official records of the case are the basis for this account.

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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