Deaths in Custody
Executed

Joe H. Johnson

died November 24, 1961 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Joe H. Johnson was put to death in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on November 24, 1961. The Alabama Department of Corrections reports his death as an execution carried out by the state. The department's record lists the manner of death as homicide and the cause as execution.

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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