Executed
Willie D Russel
Willie D. Russel, a 31-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on December 9, 1938, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department's execution history lists the cause as execution by electric chair and the manner as homicide by the state. The available record gives no details of his life before his sentence, and it reports no objections to the 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.