Deaths in Custody
Executed

Edgar Harris

died June 20, 1930 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Edgar Harris, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on June 20, 1930. The Alabama Department of Corrections lists the death as an execution. The record gives no details of his life, family, or work. No dispute about the execution 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.

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