Executed
Ed Thomas
Ed Thomas, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on March 1, 1934, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The record gives no age and says nothing about his family, work, or life beyond the execution. It lists the cause as execution under state authority, and no dispute about the death is recorded.
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.