Deaths in Custody
Executed

Cleveland Malone

died February 27, 1931 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Cleveland Malone, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on February 27, 1931. The Alabama Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state.

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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