Executed
Joseph W. Gast
Joseph W. Gast was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 5, 1936, while in the custody of the state. The Alabama Department of Corrections lists the execution as the cause of death, and the record gives his age as unknown.
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.