Executed
Adolph Smith
Adolph Smith, a Black man, was put to death in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 30, 1938, as recorded by the Alabama Department of Corrections. The state classifies the death as a homicide by execution, a judicial killing carried out by the state. The available record gives no information about his family, work, or how others knew him. No other accounts of the circumstances were found, so the state's record is the only source for how and where he died.
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.