Deaths in Custody
Executed

Frank Bass

died August 8, 1941 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Frank Bass, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 8, 1941, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the death as an execution by the state. The available record includes no details of his family or work, and no objections to the execution are reported.

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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