Deaths in Custody
Executed

Clarence Johnson

died March 22, 1957 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Clarence Johnson, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 22, 1957, by order of the State of Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the death as an execution and classifies its manner as homicide. The available record contains no further details about him.

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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