Executed
Curtis Cobb
Curtis Cobb, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on August 19, 1938, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The state's record lists the death as an execution, and the record holds no further details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his case. No sources in this record dispute the execution or describe any failure of care before it.
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.