Executed
Willis Barnes
Willis Barnes, 29, was held at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Tattnall County, and was executed by the State of Georgia in the electric chair there on April 25, 1947. The Georgia Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the state. No other accounts of Barnes or of the execution are part of this record.
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.