Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie Rounds

27 years old · died June 10, 1932 · Georgia State Prison, Baldwin County, Georgia

Willie Rounds, a 27-year-old Black man, was held at Georgia State Prison in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, when the State of Georgia executed him in the electric chair on June 10, 1932. The Georgia Department of Corrections, in its history of executions in Georgia, records the death as an execution and lists its manner as homicide. Official records give the date, place and method of his death, and the state's account is the only one this record carries.

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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