The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Georgia before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. For people executed after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v. Georgia (1976), see List of people executed in Georgia.
On August 6, 1924, the state senate voted 26 to 21 to pass a new law replacing local hangings with centralized electrocution, which was then signed by the state governor on the 15th. Final tests on the new electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky", installed at the state farm in Milledgeville, were performed on September 12, with a special three-switch mechanism being used as the new protocols stated that "the warden" (of which there were three) had to turn it on; the first execution occurred the following day. After the creation of the new state prison in Reidsville, the electric chair was moved there in 1937, with the state's new execution chamber being located on the fifth floor of the prison's tower.
Seven further local hangings were carried out after August 1924 for defendants charged prior to the introduction of electrocution.