Executed
Columbus Boggs
Columbus Boggs, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on April 29, 1960, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the 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.