Executed
Willie Ford Ballard
Willie Ford Ballard was 19 years old when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, in Tattnall County, on November 2, 1951. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as an execution by electric chair. The department's record lists the manner of death as homicide, the category it uses for executions.
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.