Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Frank Daniels

25 years old · died December 27, 1937 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Willie Frank Daniels, a 25-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on December 27, 1937. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the execution as carried out by the state. The source gives no account of his family or life, 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.

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