Executed
Esker W. Gipson
Esker W. Gipson was a man in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections when the state put him to death in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on March 13, 1942. The department's record describes the death as an execution carried out under state authority. The record classifies the manner of death as homicide, as the state's own execution list does for every execution it carries out.
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.