Deaths in Custody
Executed

George Meadows

died October 27, 1933 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

George Meadows, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on October 27, 1933, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department lists the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide by the state.

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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