[1] Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta.

[2][3] In 2006, Governor Sonny Perdue announced that the agency planned to move its headquarters to Tift College by 2009.

[13] The agency considered placing its headquarters on the property of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) in unincorporated Butts County, near Jackson.

[17] From 1735 until 1924, persons condemned to death were hanged by the sheriff of the county or judicial circuit where the crime occurred.

[19] The Georgia General Assembly passed a law on August 16, 1924, that abolished hanging for all capital crimes.

On January 1, 1938, the site of the execution chamber relocated to the newly built Georgia State Prison at Reidsville.

[18] In 1974 the Supreme Court had outlawed executions and nullified original death penalty laws.

[19] In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one.

In 2000 the Georgia government signed HB 1284 into law, which changed the method of execution to lethal injection, effective May 1, 2000.

In November 1998 Kelly Gissendaner, a woman, was given a death sentence and was housed in the Metro State Prison.