Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Higgins

28 years old · died September 11, 1931 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Willie Higgins, 28, was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville on September 11, 1931. He was held at the prison in Baldwin County, where the execution took place. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in the state, records his death as an execution carried out by the state.

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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