Deaths in Custody
Executed

John Thompson

died February 9, 1934 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

John Thompson was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on February 9, 1934, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. He was held in state custody at Kilby Prison at the time of his death. The department records the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide.

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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