Deaths in Custody
Executed

Ray Anderson

died June 9, 1939 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Ray Anderson, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on June 9, 1939. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide. He was held at Kilby Prison at the time of his death.

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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