Executed
Joe Keith
Joe Keith, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 21, 1950, by the State of Alabama, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The record gives no age and no details about his family or life beyond that. The state's account is the only source for the death, and no other account of the circumstances is included here.
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.