Deaths in Custody
Executed

Johnnie B. Smith

died January 13, 1946 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Johnnie B. Smith was held at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was executed in the electric chair on January 13, 1946. The Alabama Department of Corrections records his death as an execution carried out by the state. The department lists the manner of death 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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