Deaths in Custody
Executed

Mack Jackson

died August 18, 1939 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Mack Jackson, a Black man, was put to death in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 18, 1939. He was in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections at the time. The department records his death as an 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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