Deaths in Custody
Executed

Billy Waldrop

died January 10, 1997 · Holman Correctional Facility, Escambia County, Alabama

Billy Waldrop was put to death by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on January 10, 1997. The Alabama Department of Corrections, which carried out the execution, reports the cause as execution and classifies the manner of death as homicide. He was held in the custody of the Department of Corrections at the time of his death.

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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