Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Hubbard

28 years old · died January 5, 1944 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Willie Hubbard, 28, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, on January 5, 1944, while held there under a sentence from the state. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the death as a judicial execution. The record offers no details about his family, work, or the circumstances that led to his sentence, and no dispute over the execution is documented here.

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.

News report