Deaths in Custody
Executed

Charlie Williams

died January 15, 1932 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Charlie Williams, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on January 15, 1932, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the cause as execution and the manner as homicide, which is the state's own classification of a judicial 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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