Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ernest Johnson

died January 25, 1946 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Ernest Johnson, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on January 25, 1946. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the cause as execution, carried out by the state. The available record includes no details about his family, work, or the circumstances of his case.

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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