Deaths in Custody
Executed

Buster Snead

died March 25, 1949 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Buster Snead, a Black man, was held at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, and was executed in the electric chair there on March 25, 1949. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the death as an execution carried out by the State of Alabama.

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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