Deaths in Custody
Executed

James Coburn

died September 4, 1964 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

James Coburn was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on September 4, 1964. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the execution as carried out by the State of Alabama. The record includes no details about his family, work, or life, and no objections to the execution are reported in the source.

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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