Legal Executions in Georgia

In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in and outside of the state, with many details never before made public. The author documents the facts as they occurred without delving into the politics of capital punishment.

Daniel Allen Hearn is employed by the federal government and lives in Monroe, Connecticut.

Daniel Allen Hearn
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 228
Bibliographic Info: bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2016
pISBN: 978-0-7864-9869-7
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2000-8
Imprint: McFarland

Table of Contents


Introduction • 1

Delaware • 7

District of Columbia • 15

Maryland • 30

Virginia • 73

West Virginia • 149

Appendix: Preliminary Lists of Executions Before 1866 • 167

Index • 215

“This book elevates an otherwise grim report to the level of highly respectable work of historical value…recommended”—ARBA.