Deaths in Custody
Executed

Elmer Ararant

died June 19, 1936 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Elmer Ararant was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on June 19, 1936. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the death as an execution. The available record contains no information about his family or life before his death, and no other account of the circumstances has been found.

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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