Deaths in Custody
Executed

Booker T. Brooks

died March 14, 1947 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Booker T. Brooks, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on March 14, 1947, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department is the only source named for the execution, and it gives no further details about his life or family.

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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