Deaths in Custody
Executed

Homer Garland Odom

died July 21, 1950 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Homer Garland Odom was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 21, 1950. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the death as an execution carried out by the State of Alabama. The record lists no other details about his life, family, or the circumstances of his sentence and death.

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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