Executed
Dock Powell
Dock Powell, a Black man, was put to death by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on January 23, 1942. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the execution as the cause of his death. The state carried out the execution, and the Department of Corrections is the only source naming the cause and manner of death.
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.