Deaths in Custody
Executed

Lewis Mitchell

died March 24, 1944 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Lewis Mitchell, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on March 24, 1944, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The record offers nothing about his family, work, or how people remembered him. The department lists the cause of death as execution by the state.

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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