Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Green

27 years old · died May 18, 1931 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Willie Green, a 27-year-old Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, on May 18, 1931. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records the death as a state 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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