Deaths in Custody
Executed

Jeremiah Reeves

died March 28, 1958 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Jeremiah Reeves, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 28, 1958, by the State of Alabama, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. He had been held in the custody of the state prison at the time. The source material gives no further details about his life or family.

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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