Deaths in Custody
Executed

A. B. Smiley

died July 10, 1936 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

A. B. Smiley, a Black man, was held in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections at Kilby Prison in Montgomery. On July 10, 1936, the State of Alabama executed him in the electric chair at that prison. The Alabama Department of Corrections records his death as an execution.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Alabama 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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